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Film

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Population and Social Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Karina Valma

1.4. Contact person function

Leading Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

karina.valma [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

372 5191 7446

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

Imported films and films that were distributed in Estonian cinemas by country of origin; attendance; mean ticket price; production of films by type; television broadcasts by origin, number of episodes and total duration; film and television services provided to foreign companies; sources of financing of audiovisual production and services

3.2. Classification system

Type of films

3.3. Sector coverage

Film imports and distribution; film and television production

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Attendance – the total number of tickets sold plus free admissions.

Corporate film – advertising, promotional film, educational film or music video.

Country of origin – the country that covered at least 50% of the production costs of the film.

Distribution of full-length films – includes full-length films screened in cinemas for commercial purposes in the reference year. The film must be screened in cinemas for at least seven days (at least one screening per day).

Educational film – a film with educational content.

Film or television service provided to a foreign company – a film or television production or postproduction service, which is paid for by a foreign enterprise and not accompanied by proprietary rights.

Full-length film – a professional film with a duration of 60 minutes or longer screened in cinema, other screening location or at least one channel owned by a media services provider or provider of corporate audiovisual media services.

Imported films – films imported for screening in cinemas and first screened in cinemas in the reference year.

Main producer – an enterprise or institution that holds the copyright of the film.

Mean ticket price – gross box office receipts in euros divided by the total number of tickets sold.

Minority co-producer – an enterprise that was involved in an international film production and has proprietary rights which are at least proportional with its participation.

Music video – a short film with artistic or promotional purposes which combines music and image.

Promotional film – a film produced for image-building purposes (excl. advertising).

Short film – a professional film with a duration of up to 59 minutes, produced for cinema, other screening location or at least one channel owned by a media services provider or provider of corporate audiovisual media services.

Television broadcasts and series – animation series; live broadcasts of sports, music and other events produced in Estonia; fictional series; serial broadcasts (incl. news, political issues, television game entertainment, documentaries, children’s broadcasts and sports broadcasts, etc.); children’s and youth broadcasts and individual broadcasts (recordings of theatre plays or concerts, individual fictional broadcasts, etc.). Series or serial broadcasts are productions consisting of at least three episodes.

3.5. Statistical unit

Film, TV broadcast or series

Audiovisual service

3.6. Statistical population

Producers of professional audiovisual productions (film, television broadcast, series, etc.) and companies providing film and television services to foreign enterprises; movie distributors.

FRAME

A list compiled based on the business register for statistical purposes of active enterprises engaged in the production of cinematographic films and videos, the production of television broadcasts and, under certain conditions, the post-production activities of cinematographic films, videos and television broadcasts

Entrepreneurs who have received support from the Estonian Film Institute or the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for the production of films

Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) and TV channels with long-term permission to provide media services

Co-producers of the ERR

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

3.8. Time coverage

1993–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Produced films – number

Cost of audiovisual production – thousand euros

Distributed films – number

Mean ticket price – euro

5. Reference period

Year

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

NO_ENGLISH_VALUE

OTHER AGREEMENTS

2009 UNESCO framework for cultural statistics

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

Annual

10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release

The news release “Film production” once a year. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Uudiskiri (in Estonian).

10.2. Publications

More information on film statistics is available on the website of the Estonian Film Database https://www.efis.ee/en.

10.3. Online database

Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Social life / Culture / Film” in the following tables:

KU06: Imports of long feature films

KU07: Distribution of long feature films

KU082: Production of films by type

KU083: Production of corporate films by type of film

KU0830: Production of television programs

KU0832: Audiovisual services provided to foreign companies by type of tv content

KU0833: Audiovisual services provided to foreign companies by type of film

KU084: Funding of audiovisual content by source of financing.

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

Not used

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Not available

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 Culture

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

If necessary, the missing data are imputed.

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 290 days after the end of the reference year (T + 290).

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 published for Estonia only. Geographical comparability at international level cannot be assessed.

15.2. Comparability - over time

The data on film imports and the distribution of films have been published since 1993. Until 2013, the data were collected with a questionnaire of Statistics Estonia, but since 2014, the data of the Estonian Film Institute have been used. Due to the change of the data source, the data are not fully comparable, but the changes are not as substantial as to disrupt the time series. The main data on the production of films have been published since 1995. The data in the time series are not fully comparable due to changes made over the years in the questionnaire, definitions and methodology. For instance, films with a duration of at least 60 minutes are currently considered full-length films. Previously, in the case of certain types of films, also shorter films were considered full-length films. Until 2019, the data on film production were collected with a questionnaire of Statistics Estonia and the data on the content of full-length and short films were corrected on the basis of the data of the Estonian Film Database. Starting from the statistics of 2020, the data on full-length and short films (excl. revenue and costs) are received from MTÜ Estonian Film Database (EFA).

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Cross-domain coherence cannot be assessed, as the specific data are collected in Estonia by only one institution: the data on film imports and the distribution of films by the Estonian Film Institute, the data on the content of full-length and short films by MTÜ Estonian Film Database (EFA) and the rest of the data by Statistics Estonia.

15.4. Coherence - internal

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent. Due to rounding, the sums received by adding numbers in tables are not always equal with the total.

16. Cost and burden

Total time of filling in reports of the statistical activity, hours: 298

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

Film 0,7

(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

Not applicable

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Total population is ca 500 objects. Census has been used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

The following data are received from the Estonian Film Institute: number of new and old films distributed in cinemas in the reporting year, attendance and ticket sales. Data on full-length and short films finalised in the reporting year (excl. sources of funding) are received from the Estonian Film Database.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Annual

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 annual statistical questionnaire “Film”.

Data from the Estonian Film Institute and Estonian Film Database are received by e-mail.

18.4. Data validation

The data are compared with the data of previous periods. All columns are checked to make sure that they have been completed as required.

18.5. Data compilation

In the case of missing or unreliable data, estimate imputation based on established regulations is used.

The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable

19. Comments

Not available

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