Service producer price index

1. Contact

1.1. Contact organisation	Statistics Estonia
1.2. Contact organisation unit	Economic and Environmental Statistics Department
1.3. Contact name	Sirje Asi
1.4. Contact person function	Analyst
1.5. Contact mail address	51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia
1.6. Contact email address	sirje.asi [at] stat.ee
1.7. Contact phone number	37258016224

2. Metadata update

2.1. Metadata last certified	27/03/2025
2.2. Metadata last update	27/03/2025

3. Statistical presentation

3.1. Data description	Service producer price index of legal and accounting activities; service producer price index of courier activities and other postal services; service producer price index of universal postal service activities; service producer price index of warehousing and support activities for transportation; service producer price index of security activities; service producer price index of cleaning activities; service producer price index of water transport activities; service producer price index of air transport activities; service producer price index of architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and analysis; service producer price index of telecommunication services (fixed line and mobile calls and SMS); service producer price index of employment activities; service producer price index of land transport; service producer price index of information technology and information service activities; service producer price index of rental and leasing service activities
3.2. Classification system	Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 Statistical Classification of Products by Activity in the European Economic Community (CPA 2008)
3.3. Sector coverage	Enterprises offering bookkeeping service, auditing service, cleaning service, legal service, postal service, courier service, water transport service, air transport service, security service, warehousing and storage service, support activities for transportation, employment service, architectural service, engineering service, technical inspection of cars service, telecommunication service (voice service), land transport service, information technology service, information service, rental and leasing services
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions	Service producer price index (SPPI) – expresses the change in prices of services sold by the Estonian service providers.
3.5. Statistical unit	Enterprise
3.6. Statistical population	Enterprises whose main or secondary activity is the provision of services FRAME List of economic units active in the surveyed field of services. The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.
3.7. Reference area	Estonia as a whole
3.8. Time coverage	Service producer price index of legal and accounting services 2006–… Service producer price index of courier and other postal services 2008–… Service producer price index of universal postal service 2010–… Service producer price index of warehousing and support activities for transportation 2009–… Service producer price index of security services 2009–… Service producer price index of cleaning services 2007–… Service producer price index of water transport services 2006–… Service producer price index of air transport services 2006–… Service producer price index of architectural, engineering and technical testing and analysis services 2006–… Service producer price index of employment activities 2010–… Service producer price index of land transport services 2014–… Service producer price index of information technology and information services 2016–… Service producer price index of rental and leasing services 2017-...
3.9. Base period	Starting from 2018, the index is published also on the base 2015 = 100.

4. Unit of measure

Index is without the unit

5. Reference period

Month

6. Institutional mandate

6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1503/2006 of 28 September 2006 implementing and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards definitions of variables, list of variables and frequency of data compilation

Regulation (EC) No 329/2009 of 22 April 2009 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the updating of the list of variables, the frequency of compilation of the statistics and the levels of breakdown and aggregation to be applied to the variables

Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny

Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006, (EC) No 657/2007 and (EC) No 1178/2008 as regards adaptations related to the removal of the industrial new orders variables

Commission Regulation (EC) No 472/2008 of 29 May 2008 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the first base year to be applied for time series in NACE Revision 2 and, for time series prior to 2009 to be transmitted according to NACE Revision 2, the level of detail, the form, the first reference period, and the reference period

Commission Regulation (EC) No 657/2007 of 14 June 2007 implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the establishment of European sample schemes

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1178/2008 of 28 November 2008 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics and Commission Regulations (EC) No 1503/2006 and (EC) No 657/2007 as regards adaptations following the revision of statistical classifications NACE and CPA

Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains

Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of 19 May 1998 concerning short-term statistics

Regulation (EC) No 1158/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2005 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics

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 § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 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 (in Estonian). See more details on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Õigusaktid.

8. Release policy

8.1. Release calendar	Notifications about the 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 the case of publications – the release month).
8.2. Release calendar access	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

Quarterly

10. Accessibility and clarity

10.1. News release	Not published
10.2. Publications	Not published
10.3. Online database	Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Prices” in the following tables: IA33: Service producer price index, change over previous year IA34: Service producer price index by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), 2010 = 100 (quarters) IA36: Service producer price index by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), 2015 = 100 (quarters) IA37: Service producer price index by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), 2016 = 100 (quarters) IA38: Service producer price index by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), 2017=100 (quarters) IA39: Service producer price index by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), 2018=100 (quarters)
10.4. Microdata access	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 microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes.
10.5. Other	Data serve as input for statistical activities 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21408 “Supply and use tables” and 20405 “Agricultural input price index”.
10.6. Documentation on methodology	Methodological Guide for Developing Producer Price Indices for Services, Eurostat-OECD (2014) Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines, Eurostat (2006) Producer Price Index Manual. Theory and Practice, International Monetary Fund (2004)
10.7. Quality documentation	The reports from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament concerning Short-Term Statistics, PEEI in focus

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 Economic Affairs and Communications
12.2. User satisfaction	Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section User surveys.
12.3. Completeness	Partially in compliance with the EU 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	Not applicable
13.3. Non-sampling error	Not measured

14. Timeliness and punctuality

14.1. Timeliness

The data are published 45 days after the end of the reference quarter (T + 45).

Service producer price indices changes over previous year are released simultaneously with fourth quarter indices.

14.2. Punctuality

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

15. Coherence and comparability

15.1. Comparability - geographical	The service producer price index (SPPI) covers the entire country and is comparable with other European Union countries.
15.2. Comparability - over time	The service producer price indices (SPPI) are comparable over time. The indices can be chain-linked to make comparisons over time.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain	There are no direct benchmark figures to check cross domain coherence.
15.4. Coherence - internal	The internal consistency of the data is ensured by the use of a common methodology for data collection and data aggregation. The sub-indices are coherent with the total index.

16. Cost and burden

Total time of filling in reports of the statistical activity, hours: 2112

Average time of filling in the reports, hours per report:

Õigusabiteenuste hind 0,4;

Raamatupidamis- ja auditeerimisteenuste hind 0,4;

Hoonete ja maastike hoolduse ning puhastusteenuste hind 0,6;

Kulleri- ja muude postiteenuste hind 0,2;

Telekommunikatsiooniteenuste hind 3;

Veetransporditeenuste hind 0,2;

Turvateenuste hind 0,5;

Laonduse ja veondust abistavate teenuste hind 1;

Tööhõiveteenuste hind 0,4;

Arhitekti- ja inseneriteenuste hind 0,5;

Maismaatransporditeenuste hind 0,4;

Infotehnoloogiaalaste ja info vahendamisega seotud teenuste hind 0,4;

Teenuste hind. Uus küsimustik (kuu) tegevusalale N82 0,3

(data for 2022)

17. Data revision

17.1. Data revision - policy	The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics of the website of Statistics Estonia.
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 within three months from the end of the reference period.

18. Statistical processing

18.1. Source data	SURVEY DATA Data have been collected by sample survey. The population is 25,000 objects. The sample includes 500 objects. The population of the survey comprises enterprises with turnover from offering specific services as their main or secondary economic activity. Data suppliers have been selected by PPS sampling. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Data on turnover from business services by enteprise are obtained from the commercial register of the Centre of Registers and Information Systems. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 20007 “Financial statistics of enterprises (quarterly)”, 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 20401 “Construction price index” and 20407 “Consumer price index” are used.
18.2. Frequency of data collection	Monthly
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 the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the statistical questionnaires “Prices of legal services”, “Prices of accounting, bookkeeping and auditing services”, “Prices of maintenance services for buildings and landscapes”, “Prices of courier and other postal activities”, “Prices of telecommunications services”, “Prices of water transport services”, “Prices of security services”, “Prices of warehousing and support activities for transportation”, “Prices of employment activities”, “Prices of postal services”, “Prices of architectural and engineering services”, “Prices of land transport services” and “Price of information technology and information supply services”. The data from the commercial register are obtained via X-Road.
18.4. Data validation	The input data are checked and, if necessary, corrected according to specified rules, and the compliance of calculated statistics with the quality requirements is checked as well: comparisons are made with previous periods, internal coherence, the coverage of the population and the response rate are checked.
18.5. Data compilation	On the bases of collected data Laspeyres-type price indices are calculated. Microdata are aggregated to the required level. Since 2006 Statistics Estonia updates the weights system of the service producer price index of activities and base prices for calculation every year. In the current year (t) the base prices for the calculation of the index were the prices of the last year (t-1) December. The weights system corresponds to the service sales revenue of enterprises in the year t-2. The service producer price index of activities is published quarterly. The annual index has been calculated as the average of four quarters.
18.6. Adjustment	Not applied

19. Comments

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