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  4. Financial statistics of agricultural, forestry and fishing enterprises (annual) (until 2017)

Financial statistics of agricultural, forestry and fishing enterprises (annual) (until 2017)

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Eve valdvee

1.4. Contact person function

Leading Statistician-Methodologist

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

eve.valdvee [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

+372 625 9397

2. Metadata update
2.1. Metadata last certified

15/06/2017

2.2. Metadata last update

15/06/2017

3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description

Enterprises’ assets, liabilities and equity; investments in fixed assets; income statement, employment and hours worked; value added and productivity measures; financial key ratios by economic activity (EMTAK 2008) and size group of enterprise (number of persons employed)

3.2. Classification system

Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2

Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK)

3.3. Sector coverage

Enterprises of the following activities have been covered by the survey: agriculture, forestry and fishery.

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Investments in tangible fixed assets and investment property – all expenditures on fixed assets, which prolong the service life or increase the productive capacity of capital goods, improve the quality of production or reduce production expenses. Fixed assets refer to assets, which are used in business over a longer period of time, usually for more than a year. Enterprise itself fixes the lower limits of the service life and monetary value of the object of fixed assets and makes the respective entry in the bookkeeping records. Investment property is land and/or buildings held to earn rentals or for capital appreciation or both.

Quarterly average number of employed persons – the total number of persons who work in the enterprise. Employed persons include also the number of working proprietors and their family members, if they work in the enterprise.

Standard output is the monetary value of gross agricultural production at farm-gate price corresponding to the average situation of each agricultural activity which is calculated on the basis of crop area, number of livestock and standard output coefficients. Standard output does not include VAT, other taxes on products and direct payments.

Turnover (formerly “net sales”) – income from sale of all products, goods and services received or to be received, which does not include VAT, excises and turnover from the sale of fixed assets. Turnover is equal with the pay received or to be received and is calculated on accrual basis accounting. Turnover excludes subsidies.

3.5. Statistical unit

Enterprise – company

3.6. Statistical population

Enterprises whose main activity is agriculture, forestry and fishery

FRAME

List of active enterprises whose main activity is agriculture, forestry or fishery.

The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

Counties – data for enteprises with 20 or more employed persons

3.8. Time coverage

2000–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Financial data (net sales, costs, inventories) – euro

Volume – tonne, thousand pieces

Employment – the average number of persons employed

Hours worked – thousand hours (with one decimal number)

5. Reference period

Year

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

Commission Regulation (EC) No 306/2005 of 24 February 2005 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

Commission Regulation (EC) No 212/2008 of 7 March 2008 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

Commission Regulation (EC) No 909/2006 of 20 June 2006 amending Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Not available

7. Confidentiality
7.1. Confidentiality - policy

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

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: http://www.stat.ee/66485.

8. Release policy
8.1. Release calendar

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

8.2. Release calendar access

http://www.stat.ee/release-calendar

8.3. User access

All users have been granted equal access to official statistics: dissemination dates of official statistics are announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) is provided access to official statistics before other users. Official statistics are first published in the Statistical Database. If there is also a news release, it is published simultaneously with data in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar.

9. Frequency of dissemination

Annual

10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release

Not published

10.2. Publications

Not published

10.3. Online database

Data are published under the subject area “Economy / Financial statistics of enterprises” in the Statistical Database at http://pub.stat.ee.

10.4. Microdata access

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34, § 35, § 36, § 37, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/51669.

10.5. Other

Data serve as input for statistical activities 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 20901 “Business Register for Statistical Purposes”, 21207 “Economic accounts for agriculture”, 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21407 “Sector accounts”, 21408 “Supply and use tables” and 22203 “Manufactured goods and industrial services”.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

Commission Regulation (EC) No 306/2005 of 24 February 2005 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

Commission Regulation (EC) No 909/2006 of 20 June 2006 amending Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

Commission Regulation (EC) No 212/2008 of 7 March 2008 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community

10.7. Quality documentation

Data on the quality of the population, sample and respondents are published in the Statistical Database.

11. Quality management
11.1. Quality assurance

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

11.2. Quality assessment

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 can take many forms, including 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.

12. Relevance
12.1. User needs

Ministry of the Environment

Ministry of Rural Affairs

Users’ suggestions and information about taking these into account are available on the website of Statistics Estonia at http://www.stat.ee/statistikatood.

12.2. User satisfaction

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys.

All results are available on the website at http://www.stat.ee/user-surveys.

12.3. Completeness

In compliance with the rules (regulations)

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

13.2. Sampling error

The error due to probability sampling is estimated for more important indicators.

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not measured

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

Data are published 360 days after the end of the reference year (T + 360).

14.2. Punctuality

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

15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical

International comparability is limited as there are many countries who do not conduct this survey.

15.2. Comparability - over time

The data are comparable since 2005.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Data serve as input for statistical activities 21207 “Economic accounts for agriculture”, 20901 “Business Register for Statistical Purposes”, 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21408 “Supply and use tables”.

15.4. Coherence - internal

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

16. Cost and burden

–

17. Data revision
17.1. Data revision - policy

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the dissemination policy of Statistics Estonia at http://www.stat.ee/dissemination-policy.

17.2. Data revision - practice

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available.

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Total population is 3,800 objects. The sample includes 1,100 objects.

All enterprises with 20 or more persons employed, with standard output at least 500,000 euros and those belonging to the small stratums are surveyed. For other enterprises simple random sampling by the number of persons employed, economic activity and standard output is applied.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Annual reports of enterprises are received from the commercial register of the Centre of Registers and Information Systems.

Data on the following tax returns are received from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board: value added tax return (form KMD); declaration of income and social tax, unemployment insurance premiums and contributions to mandatory funded pension (form TSD).

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Data from statistical activities 21203 “Livestock farming and meat production”, 21214 “Crop farming” and 21207 “Economic accounts for agriculture” are used.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Annual

18.3. Data collection

Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on Statistics Estonia’s website at http://www.stat.ee/andmete-esitamine (in Estonian).

Data are collected with the annual official statistics questionnaire “Põllumajandus-, metsamajandus- ja kalandusettevõtete majandusnäitajad”.

The data from the commercial register are received via X-Road.

18.4. Data validation

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data. Before data dissemination, the internal coherence of the data is checked.

18.5. Data compilation

In the case of missing or unreliable data, estimate imputation based on established regulations will be used. The data of the enterprises that did not submit the questionnaire are replaced by the respective average of responded similar enterprises.

Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing the output are calculated. New variables are calculated by applying arithmetic conversion to already existing variables. This may be done repeatedly, the derived variable may, in turn, be based on previously derived new variables.

For statistical units weights are calculated, which are used to expand the data of the sample survey to the total population.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures, e.g. average, median, dispersion, etc.

The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applied

19. Comments

Standard output is the monetary value of gross agricultural production at farm-gate price corresponding to the average situation of each agricultural activity and which is calculated on the basis of crop area, number of livestock and standard output coefficients. Standard output does not include VAT, other taxes on products and direct payments.

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