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Methodology and quality reports

Methodology and quality reports are a part of metadata, that is, information describing statistical data. These reports describe the production and release of statistics: data collection, data aggregation, release policy, institutional mandate, comparability, accessibility, accuracy, and so on. This information gives users a better understanding of statistics and allows an assessment of the reliability of the published data and their suitability for reuse. 

Methodology and quality reports are based on the SIMS (Single Integrated Metadata Structure) standard, developed by the European Statistical System (ESS) and Eurostat, and on the ESMS (Euro-SDMX Metadata Structure) standard which is a subset of SIMS. The standards ensure the uniform and comparable presentation of metadata in the European Statistical System. Read more at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/metadata/reference-metadata-reporting-standards.


Absolute poverty (until 2015)
Accommodation
Accommodation establishment providing rehabilitation services (until 2017)
Accommodation establishments
Adult Education Survey (household survey)
Agri-environmental commitments (until 2015)
Agricultural Census
Agricultural input price index
Agricultural output price index
Agricultural products (until 2015)
Air emissions accounts
Air pollution (until 2015)
Air transport
Amateur cultural activities
Annual accounts of information and communication technology sector (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of construction enterprises (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of industrial enterprises (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of real estate (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of service enterprises (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of tourism and accommodation (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of trade enterprises (until 2015)
Annual economic indicators of transport enterprises (until 2015)
Aquaculture
Auxiliary indicators to national accounts (until 2015)
Border crossings registered at border checkpoints (until 2016)
Broadcasting
Business demography
Business register for statistical purposes
Cereals (until 2015)
Child well-being
Communication services (until 2016)
Communications (until 2016)
Community Survey on ICT usage and e-commerce in Enterprises
Construction price index
Construction volume indices
Consumer price index
Consumption expenditure forecast
Continuing Vocational Training Survey (enterprise survey) (CVTS)
Crime
Crop farming
Dairy products (until 2015)
Dwelling price index and owner-occupied housing price index
Economic accounts for agriculture
Economically inactive population
Ecosystem accounting
Educational expenditure
Emission and capture of gases causing climate change (until 2015)
Employed persons
Employment and financial statistics of the cultural sector (until 2019)
Employment indicators of the immigrant population
Energy accounts
Energy consumption and production (annual)
Energy consumption and production (monthly)
Enterprise groups
Environmental goods and services sector accounts
Environmental protection expenditure accounts
Environmental protection expenditure accounts (macro-level)
Environmental subsidies and similar transfers accounts
Environmental taxes accounts
Environmental trends
Estonia 2035
Estonian Health Survey
Estonian Social Survey
European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS)
Export price index
Farm structure survey
Film
Financial indicators of enterprises
Financial statistics of agricultural, forestry and fishing enterprises (annual) (until 2017)
Financial statistics of agricultural, forestry and fishing enterprises (quarterly) (until 2017)
Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)
Financial statistics of enterprises (quarterly)
Financial statistics of financial service activities and activities auxiliary to financial services (annual)
Financial statistics of financial service activities and activities auxiliary to financial services (quarterly)
Financial statistics of foreign affiliates
Financial statistics of insurance enterprises (annual)
Financial statistics of insurance enterprises (monthly)
Financial statistics of insurance enterprises (quarterly)
Financial statistics of non-profit organisations
Financial statistics of trade enterprises (monthly)
First registrations of vehicles (until 2015)
Fish catch
Foreign trade
Foreign trade in services
Forest accounts
Forest resources
Forestry
Formal education
Gender pay gap
Government finance
Granted building permits and completed construction works
Health
Health and living conditions of elderly people
Health care (until 2016)
Hobby education
Hourly earnings of male and female employees
Household Budget Survey
Housing
Import price index
Income, poverty and material deprivation
Innovation in enterprises
Input-output tables
Integration
Integration of disabled persons
Internet use and digital skills survey
Job vacancies and labour turnover
Labour Force Survey
Labour Force Survey (before IESS framework regulation)
Labour cost index
Labour costs
Labour disputes, strikes and lock-outs
Labour market policy interventions (until 2014)
Legal system (until 2016)
Livestock farming and meat production
Living conditions
Main employment indicators
Manufactured goods and industrial services
Material deprivation (until 2015)
Material flow accounts
Monitoring of air and water quality (until 2015)
Museum
Music
National accounts (annual)
National accounts (quarterly)
Organic farming (until 2015)
Participation in culture
Passenger transport by road (until 2015)
Pension funds
Permanent incapacity for work and disability
Population
Population and housing census
Population projections
Price of electricity and natural gas
Printed matter
Producer price index of industrial output
Production indices
Public library
Purchase and use of milk
Purchase of livestock and poultry (until 2015)
Purchasing power parity
Quarterly accounts of information and communication technology sector (until 2015)
Quarterly economic indicators of construction enterprises (until 2015)
Quarterly economic indicators of industrial enterprises (until 2015)
Quarterly economic indicators of service enterprises (until 2015)
Quarterly economic indicators of tourism and accommodation (until 2015)
Quarterly economic indicators of trade enterprises (until 2015)
Quarterly economic indicators of transport enterprises (until 2015)
Quarterly statistics of livestock farming (until 2015)
Regional GDP
Regional development
Register-based population and housing census
Registered accidents at work
Registered motor vehicles
Relationship survey: safe relationships within family, at work and outside work
Replenishment of bodies of water (until 2015)
Research and development
Retail trade enterprises
Sales of pesticides
Satellite account on pension schemes
Sector accounts
Selling and rental prices of agricultural land
Service producer price index
Social benefits (until 2015)
Social exclusion – Laeken indicators
Social insurance (until 2015)
Social services
Socio-economic indicators of fleets
Sown area of field crops (until 2015)
Sports
Statistical register of agricultural holdings
Statistics of economic units
Statistics on gross national income and weighted average VAT rate for own resources
Supply and use tables
Supply balance sheets of agricultural products
Sustainable development indicators
Theatre
Time Use Survey
Tourism Survey
Tourism satellite account
Trade volume indices
Traffic accidents
Traffic accidents resulting in human injuries (until 2015)
Transactions in real estate (until 2016)
Transport by railway
Transport infrastructure
Transport of goods by road
Transport of passengers and goods by transport enterprises
Travelling of Estonian residents (until 2023)
Unemployed persons
Urban audit (until 2018)
Use of pesticides
Vital events. Births
Vital events. Deaths and causes of death
Vital events. Divorces
Vital events. Marriages
Vital events. Migration
Vital events. Spontaneous and induced abortions
Wages and salaries
Waste management
Water transport
Water use
Working Life Survey
Yields (until 2015)