Quarterly economic indicators of trade enterprises (until 2015)

Statistics Estonia

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

Jaanika Tiigiste

Leading Statistician

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

jaanika.tiigiste [at] stat.ee

+372 625 9257

09/01/2015

09/01/2015

Wholesale and retail sales by economic activity; retail sales of retail trade enterprises by economic activity and commodity group; trade enterprises’ assets, liabilities and trade margin by economic activity

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

Motor trade, wholesale trade or retail trade enterprises, EMTAK 45, 46, 47

Current price – the prices of goods and services in the reference period.

Retail sales of goods – resell of new and second-hand goods by stores, stalls, sell counters, mail order sale stores, Internet and public sale to the people for their private consumption and housekeeping. Retail sale will not include sales of durable goods (cars, furniture, household appliances, etc.) to the people through leasing enterprises, if leasing enterprise becomes the owner of goods.

Turnover – income from sale of all products, goods and services received or to be received, which does not include VAT and excises. Turnover is equal with the pay received or to be received and is calculated on a accrual basis accounting. Turnover excludes subsidies.

Wholesale sales of goods – reselling of goods and mediation to industrial and trade consumers, institutions and organisations, including leasing enterprises. In mediation of goods, the goods do not belong to mediator, only commission for services belongs there.

Enterprise

Enterprises whose main activity is trade

FRAME

List of active enterprises whose main activity is trade. The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.

Estonia as a whole

2001–…

Not applicable.

Financial data – million euros

Quarter

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT

Not available.

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 AGREEMENTS

Not available.

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.

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/19410.

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

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

All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calender.

Quarter

Not published.

Not published.

Data are published under the heading „Economy/ Internal trade” in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee.

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 micro-data and anonymisation of micro-data are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s „Procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes”: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/51669.

Data serve as input for statistical activity 21603 „Retail sale volume indices”.

Methodology of short-term business statistics. Interpretation and guidelines, Eurostat (2006)

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/short_term_business_statistics/documents/KS-BG-06-001-EN.pdf

Data on the quality of the population, sample and respondents are published in the Statistical Database: Economy/ Financial statistics of enterprises/ Population, sample and number of respondents. Quality indicators.

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for 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 includes, among other things, 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 Economic Affairs and Communications

Ministry of Finance

Users’ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website http://www.stat.ee/tooplaan.

Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys.

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

In compliance with the rules (regulations).

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

Standard error estimates have been computed for all aggregate data.

Not measured.

The data are released 65 days upon the end of the reference quarter (T+65).

(2012) T+67

(2011) T+67

(2010) T+65

(2009) T+64

(2008) T+68

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

The data are comparable with the data of other European Union Member States.

The data are comparable across time.

Data are related to statistical activity 20007 „Quarterly Financial Statistics of Enterprises”.

Quarterly economic indicators of trade enterprises are coherent with same monthly indicators.

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

Total time of filling in reports of statistical actions, working days: 7,8

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

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

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

SURVEY DATA

Not used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Not used.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Data from statistical activity 20007 „Quarterly financial statistics of enterprises” are used.

Quarter

Data are collected through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission) and from administrative data sources. eSTAT is also used to monitor the completion of questionnaires. The questionnaires have been designed for completion in eSTAT by the respondents themselves and they 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 quarterly statistical questionnaire „Majandustegevus. Kaubandus”.

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods and other surveys.

The indicators to be published are calculated on the basis of the collected data.

Not applied.

Not available.