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  2. Methodology and quality
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  4. Traffic accidents

Traffic accidents

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Rita Raudjärv

1.4. Contact person function

Leading Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

rita.raudjarv [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

37258005391

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

Road accidents with casualties by month

3.2. Classification system

Not used

3.3. Sector coverage

Road accidents

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Person injured – a person who is administered first aid due to an injury in a traffic accident, and to whom outpatient or inpatient treatment has been prescribed. Differently from several European countries minor and serious injuries are not distinguished.

Person killed – a person who died at the scene of the traffic accident or within 30 days following the traffic accident because of injuries received in the traffic accident. If a person died of these injuries more than 30 days after the accident, the person is considered as injured. Persons who committed suicide are considered as persons killed.

Traffic accident – an event in which an individual is injured or killed as a result of at least one vehicle moving on or off the road. By road is meant a roadway, street, car park, calm traffic area or other structure used for traffic with sidewalks, cycle and pedestrian tracks, paved shoulders, green, dividing or other strips. Events where a pedestrian is injured by collision with a train, events on a road on which public access was closed for competition between participating vehicles, and events between vehicles and individuals working in road construction, repair and maintenance are excluded.

Traffic accident with the participation of a drunk driver – a traffic accident in which at the time of the accident at least one of the participating drivers was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, irrespective of whether he/she caused the accident or not. According to the Traffic Act, the driver of a vehicle is considered to be intoxicated by alcohol if:

- the alcohol content in one gram of the driver’s blood is no less than 1.50 milligrams or the alcohol content in the breath exhaled by the driver is 0.75 milligrams in one litre of breath;

- the alcohol content in one gram of the driver’s blood is no less than 0.50 milligrams or the alcohol content in the breath exhaled by the driver is 0.25 milligrams in one litre of breath and there are externally perceptible disturbed or changed bodily or mental functions and reactions due to which the driver is evidently not able to drive a vehicle with due firmness required in traffic.

Pursuant to the Traffic Act amendment in force as of 1 July 2011 also a moped is considered a power-driven vehicle, wherefore also drunk moped drivers are taken into account, incl. in retrospect.

3.5. Statistical unit

Traffic accident

3.6. Statistical population

Road accidents

FRAME

Road accidents with casualties registered in the database of traffic accidents of the Republic of Estonian Transport Administration

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

3.8. Time coverage

Road accidents with casualties by county 1998–2015

Road accidents with casualties (monthly data) 1990–…

Traffic accidents and fires on Estonian public railways 1993–2016

Aircraft accidents with casualities 2001–2016

Ship accidents by type of accident 2000–2016

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Number of traffic accidents

5. Reference period

Year

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

United Nations Organisation (UNO)

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

International Transport Forum (ITF)

International Road Federation (IRF)

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

Not applicable

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

Annual (by months)

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 / Transport / Traffic accidents” in the following table:

TS093: Traffic accidents with casualties on the roads (months)

10.4. Microdata access

Not applicable

10.5. Other

Not used

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Glossary for Transport Statistics (prepared by the Intersecretariat Working Group on Transport Statistics – Eurostat, ITF and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/main/wp6/pdfdocs/glossen4.pdf

10.7. Quality documentation

Not available

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

Estonian Rescue Board

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

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

Not applicable

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not measured

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

Monthly data of road accidents in Estonia are published 85 days after the end of the reference year (T + 85) .

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 data are internationally comparable, as defined in Eurostat/OECD/UNECE Common Questionnaire on transport.

15.2. Comparability - over time

Since 2018, data are published only on accidents on roads. From 2017, data are not published by counties.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Not applicable

15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable

16. Cost and burden

No information, based on administrative data

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 or when the data for the following year are available.

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Not used

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Data on road traffic accidents with casualties are received from the database of traffic accidents of the Republic of Estonian Transport Administration.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Annual

18.3. Data collection

Road accident data are received via an FTP-server.

18.4. Data validation

The data are validated by the data administrator.

18.5. Data compilation

The data are compiled by the data administrator.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applied

19. Comments

As of 2016, the statistical activity 22025 “Traffic accidents” combines the following statistical activities with similar output indicators: 22002 “Traffic accidents resulting in human injuries” and 22025 “Traffic accidents (air, rail and maritime transport)”.

Since 2017, the directly applicable legislation Regulation (EC) No 91/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 on rail transport statistics is cancelled.

Since 2017, the national component (statistics by counties) of the statistical activity is reduced.

Since 2018, statistics of shipping accidents, aircraft accidents and railway accidents are discontinued.

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