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Project on emptying blocks of flats

At the request of the Ministry of Finance, Statistics Estonia analyses the electricity consumption of blocks of flats to identify empty dwellings across Estonia. This is a further step towards tackling the problem of empty blocks of flats at national and municipal level.

Read more here (only in Estonian).

See also the project's FAQs (only in Estonian).

Commissioned by:

Ministry of Finance

Data sources: 

population register, building register, Address Data System, electricity consumption data of Elering AS

Authors: 

Tõnu Raitviir, Liisi Lillipuu, Kaja Sõstra

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