Housing
Type, number and occupancy of dwellings, 1 January Useful floor space of dwellings, 1 January Number of rooms of dwellings, 1 January Year of construction (interval) of dwellings Existence of dwelling comfort: tap water, flush toilet, bath or shower, central heating | |
Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK) List of building use purposes | |
Dwellings of Estonia | |
Amenities – piped water, flush toilet, bath or shower, central heating. Amenities unknown – information is not available for at least one amenity. The dwelling has all the other amenities. Central heating – dwelling is considered as centrally heated if heating is provided either from a community heating centre or from an installation built in the building or in the housing unit, established for heating purposes, without regard to the source of energy. Collective living quarters – premises which are designed for habitation by large groups of individuals or several households and which are used as the usual residence by at least one person (social welfare institutions, dormitories, prisons, convents, monasteries). Conventional dwellings – structurally separate and independent premises at fixed locations which are designed for permanent human habitation. Dwelling – conventional dwelling, collective living quarter or other housing unit (types of dwelling). Dwelling with amenities – the dwelling has piped water, flush toilet, bath or shower and central heating. Dwelling without amenities – the dwelling lacks at least one of the four amenities. Floor space of a dwelling – floor space measured inside the outer walls excluding non-habitable cellars and attics and, in multi-dwelling buildings, all common spaces. Occupant – Estonian permanent resident living in the premises. More detailed information on the determination of Estonian permanent residents is on the website of Statistics Estonia in the methodological document “Implementation of the residency index in demographic statistics”. Occupied dwelling – at least one resident has registered it as the place of residence in the Population Register. Other housing units – occupied non-residential premises (huts, cabins, shacks, shanties, caravans, houseboats, barns, mills, caves or other shelters). Room – space in a housing unit enclosed by walls reaching from the floor to the ceiling or roof, of a size large enough to hold a bed for an adult (4 square metres at least) and at least 2 metres high over the major area of the ceiling. | |
Dwelling | |
Dwellings located in Estonia FRAME List of dwellings in the Statistical register of buildings and premises | |
Estonia as a whole Counties | |
1994–… | |
Not applicable |
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Not published | |
Not published | |
Data are published under the subject area “Economy / Real estate” in the statistical database at 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 microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes. | |
Not used | |
The register-based population and housing census (REGREL) methodology is used. The final report of the REGREL methodology development project (Tallinn, 2013) can be viewed as a methodology document, as it includes definitions. | |
The final report of the register-based housing and population census methodology development project (Tallinn, 2013) can be viewed as a methodology document, because it includes an analysis of registers and their suitability for use during the next census. Report of the first trial census of REGREL. |
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Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Ministry of Finance | |
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. | |
In compliance with the rules (regulations) |
General accuracy depends on the coverage and timeliness of the registers used. The total population of dwellings consists of occupied and unoccupied dwellings. It is not possible to assign all permanent residents of Estonia to dwellings, as some of the Population Register addresses are of poor quality and cannot be matched to address objects in the Estonian Address Data System, and some addresses are only at the municipality level. As at 1st January 2018, the number of permanent residents not assigned to dwellings was approximately 3.3% of the total number of permanent residents. | |
Not applicable | |
Due to the combination of two data sources, coverage error should be taken into account – there may be over-coverage in the data, because the Register of Buildings and the Population and Housing Census use different definitions of “dwelling” (the first counts all officially approved dwellings; the census also enumerates dwellings that have not been officially approved, but where people already live). |
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. | |
The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available. |
SURVEY DATA Not used ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Register of Buildings Population Register Estonian Address Data System (ADS) Database of prisoners, detained persons, persons in custody and probationers Social Security Information System Social Services and Benefits Registry DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activity 30003 “Register-based population and housing census” are used. Cencus 2011 database | |
Annual | |
The data for dwellings have been collected from registers. The main registers are the Register of Buildings, Population Register (PR) and Estonian Address Data System (ADS). In addition to the main registers, information from the Database of prisoners, detained persons, persons in custody and probationers and Social Security Information System have been used. Data are received via X-Road or FTP-server. | |
Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process. | |
Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing 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 variables. The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional variables. The total population of dwellings consists of all dwellings in the address data system as address objects as at 1st January. The total population of dwellings consists of occupied and unoccupied dwellings. | |
Not applied |