Statistics Estonia

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

Statistics Estonia

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Turnover.

Turnover value index.

Turnover volume index.

NACE Rev. 2.

Division 45, 46 and 47 of NACE Rev. 2

Turnover is the income from sale of all products, goods and services received or to be received, which does not include VAT and excises. Turnover is equal with the pay received or to be received and is calculated on a accrual basis accounting. Turnover excludes subsidies.

Value index shows the change in the sales of goods in current prices compared to the sales of previous periods. The price index is not used when calculating the value index.

Volume index shows the change in the volume of sales of goods in constant prices compared to the sale of some previous period. Price indices of goods are used while calculating the index.

Enterprise.

List of active enterprises whose main activity is the wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, wholesale trade or retail trade from the business register for statistical purposes.
The population includes about 28,800 objects.

The whole country is covered.

In case of motor vehicles sale and repair enterprises and retail trade enterprises (NACE G45 and G47) the first data in NACE Rev. 2 is from 2001, in case of wholesale trade enterprises (NACE G46) from 2021.

Turnover – not relevant

Turnover value index and turnover volume index – the base year is 2015.

Turnover – published nationally in millions of euros.

Turnover value index – data are transmitted to Eurostat as indices in current prices.

Turnover volume index – data are transmitted to Eurostat and published nationally as indices in constant prices.

Month.

Official Statistics Act https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/ee/506012015002/consolide/current

Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance)

Data are transmitted to EUROSTAT.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act.

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-statistics-estonia/legal-acts

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website of Statistics Estonia. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).

The publication calendar of news releases and the statistical publications are available on the website of Statistics Estonia https://www.stat.ee/en/calendar

All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar.

Monthly.

The news release "Retail trade” once a month. The news release can be viewed on the website https://www.stat.ee/en

Not published.

Data are published under the heading "Economy/Internal trade” in the Statistical Database in https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 33, § 34, § 35, § 36, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to micro-data and anonymisation of micro-data are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes: https://www.stat.ee/sites/default/files/2020-08/Procedure%20for%20dissemination%20of%20confidential%20data%20for%20scientific%20purposes.pdf

Data are sent to Eurostat both to be used in European aggregates as well as to be released as national data.

A methodological description of the survey is available in the website of Statistics Estonia (ESMS metadata): https://www.stat.ee/en/find-statistics/methodology-and-quality/esms-metadata/21601 and https://www.stat.ee/en/find-statistics/methodology-and-quality/esms-metadata/21603.

The Quality Report sent to Eurostat is available at the address:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics/methodology

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. "Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications,

Ministry of Finance,

Eurostat.

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-us/user-surveys

In compliance with the rules (regulations).

Trade enterprises turover is based on the administrative data. The population includes about 28,800 enterprises.
The data may be revised (if errors are discovered) during the year after the end of the reference period, but in general the data are final after they are first published.

Sampling error cannot be calculated because we do not use probability sample.

Not measured because of the usage of administrative data.

The data are published 30 days after the reference month (T+30).

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calendar.

The data are comparable with the data of European Union Member States.

Motor vehicles sale and repair enterprises and retail trade enterprises (NACE G45 and G47) data are comparable since 2001.
Wholesale trade enterprises (NACE G46) data are comparable over time since 2021.

Since 2016, the sample survey replaced with a comprehensive survey and the statistical report of enterprises is replaced with data from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board.

Monthly indicators of trade enterprises are coherent with same quarterly and yearly (SBS) indicators.

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent. Higher level aggregations are derived from detailed data according to pre-defined procedures.

Not measured.

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section https://www.stat.ee/en/statistics-estonia/about-us/strategy/principles-dissemination-official-statistics of the website of Statistics Estonia.

The same revision policy is applied to data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat.

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, if errors are discovered, if new or better data become available within a year from the end of the reference period.

If the data are adjusted or revised, then this is marked in footnotes in the published tables.

The quality indicators used in the data revision practice are MR (Mean Revision) and MAR (Mean Absolute Revision). The calculated values for the last 36 months (January 2020 to December 2022) are:
Turnover volume index (TOVV) - section G47 annual growth rates for original data series (YoY) MR = -0.04%, MAR = 0.29% and for calendar/working day adjusted data series (YoY) MR = -0.04%, MAR = 0.33%.
Turnover (TOVT) - section G47 annual growth rates for original data series (YoY) MR = -0.05%, MAR = 0.30% and for calendar/working day adjusted data series (YoY) MR = -0.07%, MAR = 0.35%.

The data of value added tax returns (form KMD) from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board are used. Turnover is calculated using the indicators of value added tax returns.

Monthly.

Data are gained from Estonian Tax and Customs Board through Data Exchange Layer X-Road.

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods and other surveys.

Turnover – published indicators are calculated on the basis of received data.

Turnover value index – output parameters are calculated by detailed aggregated turnover data.

Turnover volume index – output parameters are calculated by detailed aggregated turnover data and by detailed price indices.

The time series are seasonally and calendar adjusted, trend is calculated, using the TRAMO/SEATS method in JDemetra+.
Calendar adjusted data:
Data in which the influence of varying number of working days has been eliminated.
Seasonally adjusted data:
Direct method is used for the seasonal adjustment. Model is fixed for the current year. The model is chosen after detailed analysis: 1 regressor (Trading days) is used, outliers are detected and corrected, national holidays calendar is used.
Diagnostic statistics are used to control the quality of seasonal adjustment. The significance levels, the number of outliers and statistics on residuals (residual normality, residual asymmetry, etc.) in data series are controlled.
Revisions: Seasonal adjustment models and parameters are revised and fixed if necessary.

More information about the adjustment is found in added template.

Not applicable.