National accounts (annual)
Gross domestic product (GDP) and its components by production, expenditure and income approach GDP by production approach by institutional sector and economic activity; by components of domestic demand together with import and export of goods and services at current prices and by chained value; the component’s growth compared to the previous period and the corresponding period of the previous year; the component’s contribution to GDP growth and share in the GDP GDP by expenditure and income approach by transactions The structures of output, intermediate consumption and value added are presented by economic activity | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) Combined Nomenclature (CN) Statistical Classification of Products by Activity in the European Economic Community (CPA 2008) List of Products of the European Community (PRODCOM List) ESA: Classification of transactions and other flows 2010 | |
Non-financial corporations Financial corporations General government Households Non-profit institutions serving households | |
Gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices – the sum of the gross value added of all resident producers at basic prices, plus taxes less subsidies on products. | |
Economic territory Institutional unit Economic activity | |
Not applicable FRAME Not applicable | |
Estonia as a whole | |
1995–… | |
In case of the chain-linking method, the year preceding the accounting period (t – 1) is used as the base period. |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1287/2003 of 15 July 2003 on the harmonisation of gross national income at market prices (GNI Regulation) Commission Regulation (EC) No 109/2005 of 24 January 2005 on the definition of the economic territory of Member States for the purposes of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1287/2003 on the harmonisation of gross national income at market prices Commission Regulation (EC) No 1722/2005 of 20 October 2005 on the principles for estimating dwelling services for the purpose of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1287/2003 on the harmonisation of gross national income at market prices Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (Text with EEA relevance) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 724/2014 of 26 June 2014 on the interchange standard for the transmission of data required under Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (Text with EEA relevance) COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2015/1342 of 22 April 2015 amending the methodology for the classification of products by activity given in Annex A to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council REGULATION (EC) No 1365/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 September 2006 on statistics of goods transport by inland waterways and repealing Council Directive 80/1119/EEC COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/2304 of 19 December 2016 on the modalities, structure, periodicity and assessment indicators of the quality reports on data transmitted pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council OTHER LEGAL ACTS COMMISSION DECISION of 22 February 1994 on measures to be taken for the implementation of Council Directive 89/130/EEC, Euratom on the harmonization of the compilation of gross national product at market prices (94/168/EC, Euratom) COMMISSION DECISION of 24 July 1998 on the treatment for national accounts purposes of VAT fraud (the discrepancies between theoretical VAT receipts and actual VAT receipts) (notified under document number C(1998) 2202) OTHER AGREEMENTS Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
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. | |
The dissemination of data collected for the production of official statistics is based on the requirements laid down in §§ 34 and 35 of the Official Statistics Act. The principles for treatment of confidential data can be found here. |
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). | |
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. |
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Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject areas “Economy / National accounts / Gross domestic product (GDP) / Main national accounts indicators”, “Economy / National accounts / Gross domestic product (GDP) / Gross domestic product by expenditure approach” and “Economy / National accounts / Gross domestic product (GDP) / Gross domestic product by production approach” in all tables. | |
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Data serve as input for following statistical activities: 20411 “Purchasing power parity”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21407 “Sector accounts”, 21408 “Supply and use tables”, 21410 “Statistics on gross national income and weighted average VAT rate for own resources” and 50201 “Sustainable sevelopment indicators”. | |
European System of Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-02-13-269 System of National Accounts 2008 (2008 SNA). European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, World Bank (2009, New York) http://unstats.un.org/unsd/nationalaccount/docs/SNA2008.pdf | |
According to Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2304, the quality report on data transmitted pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council |
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. | |
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. |
Ministry of Finance Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia) | |
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. | |
The annual national accounts are in compliance with the European System of Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010) methodology. |
The accuracy of the national accounts depends on the quality of data of other statistical activities used as input. The accuracy of input data from statistical activities is monitored. | |
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Eurostat and the NSIs try to reduce non-sampling errors through continuous methodological and survey process improvements. |
The data are published 270 days, 630 days and 1,350 days after the end of the reference year. 270 days after the end of the reference year (T + 270) the corrected quarterly and annual data are published. 630 days after the end of the reference year (T + 630) the annual data revised according to the Structural Business Survey (SBS; in Estonian EKOMAR) are published. 1,350 days after the end of the reference year (T + 1350) the annual data revised according to the supply and use tables are published. | |
The data have been published at the time announced in the release calendar. |
The geographical comparability of national accounts in Member States of the European Union is ensured by the application of common definitions of the European System of Accounts (ESA 2010). Worldwide geographical comparison is also possible as most non-European countries apply the System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) guidelines, and SNA 2008 is consistent with ESA 2010. | |
National accounts time series compiled according to a common methodology start from 1995. | |
Within the system of national accounts there is full consistency between the domains: annual and quarterly national accounts, government accounts, sector accounts, financial accounts, regional accounts, supply and use tables. However, in practice full consistency may not always be possible and temporary discrepancies might occur. They are usually the result of vintage differences. Primary statistics like structural business statistics (SBS), short term statistics (STS) and labour force statistics (LFS) are widely used as input for national accounts. However, there is no full consistency between these statistical domains and national accounts. Main reasons are differences in concepts/definitions and in coverage. Balance of payments is also used as an important source for national accounts. The definitions and coverage of balance of payments, as defined in the BPM6 manual, are fully harmonised with those in ESA 2010. Therefore, balance of payments variables are in principle fully coherent with the corresponding national accounts variables. | |
Within the system of national accounts there is full consistency between the domains: annual and quarterly national accounts, government accounts, sector accounts, financial accounts, regional accounts, supply and use tables. However, in practice full consistency may not always be possible and temporary discrepancies might occur. They are usually the result of vintage differences. |
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. | |
Every year, the data for the last 4 years are revised based on the supply and use tables and the Structural Business Survey. The results of regular revisions are published in August together with the GDP for the 2nd quarter. |
SURVEY DATA Not used ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Data on state budget and local government budgets by budget classification are received from the information system of governmental accounts of the Ministry of Finance. The expenditure report of state pension insurance is received from the Social Insurance Board. The expenditure report of health insurance is received from the Estonian Health Insurance Fund. Information about buildings is received from the Estonian Register of Buildings. Data on the following tax returns are received from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board: income tax return for a resident natural person (form A); business income of a resident natural person (form E); declaration of income and social tax, unemployment insurance premiums and contributions to mandatory funded pension (form TSD, annex 1, annex 4). The following data are received from the Eesti Pank (the central bank of Estonia): Balance of Payments, aggregated balance sheet and income statement of commercial banks, aggregated income statement of leasing companies. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 10302 “Water use”, 20001 “Financial statistics of non-profit organisationss”, 20003 “Financial statistics of agricultural, forestry and fishing enterprises (annual)”, 20206 “Energy consumption and production (annual)”, 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 20401 “Construction price index”, 20403 “Export price index”, 20404 “Import price index”, 20405 “Agricultural input price index”, 20406 “Agricultural output price index”, 20407 “Consumer price index”, 20408 “Production price index of industrial output”, 20409 “Price of electricity and natural gas”, 20413 “Service producer price Index”, 21101 “Wages and salaries”, 21207 “Economic accounts of agriculture”, 21300 “Financial statistics of financial service activities and activities auxiliary to financial services (annual)”, 21303 “Government finance”, 21304 “Pension funds”, 21308 “Financial statistics of insurance enterprises (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21407 “Sector accounts”, 21408 “Supply and use tables”, 22027 “Registered motor vehicles”, 22029 “Transport of passangers and goods by transport enterprises”, 22203 “Manufactured goods and industrial services”, 22303 “Foreign trade”, 30101 “Population”, 40202 “Tourism Survey” , 40402 “Film”, 40203 “Household Budget Survey” or 40204 “Consumption expenditure forecast”, 40310 “Formal education”, 40308 “Educational expenditure”, 40411 “Broadcasting” , 40604 “Health care” and 40701 “Labour Force Survey” are used. | |
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Administrative data are received via X-Road, an FTP-server or by e-mail. | |
Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods and other surveys. | |
Collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculation of additional indicators. | |
Time series are seasonally and working day adjusted. Seasonal adjustments are made using Demetra+ software. |