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Music

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Population and Social Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Erik Lest

1.4. Contact person function

Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

20 Narva Rd., 51009 Tartu, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

erik.lest [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

37258860456

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

Concert organisers

Concerts

Attendance, thousands

3.2. Classification system

Breakdown by county is based on three sources: kultuur.info, piletilevi.ee and piletimaailm.com.

3.3. Sector coverage

Music organisations

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Attendance – the number of people who visited an event, in thousands and based on purchased tickets. Attendance does not cover staff involved in organising a concert or working at the concert venue. From 2018, only tickets sold through Piletilevi and Piletimaailm are included.

Concert – the presentation of live music either indoors or outdoors. The term “concert” also includes web concerts.

Concert organiser – a person or an economic unit which has organised public concerts for a fee or for free during the reference period.

3.5. Statistical unit

Concert organiser

3.6. Statistical population

Concert organisers

FRAME

List of concert organisers compiled on the basis of data from the Ministry of Culture, Estonian Authors’ Society, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Business Register and kultuur.info

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

3.8. Time coverage

2013–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Concert organisers – number

Concerts – number

Attendance, thousands – number

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 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

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

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 “Social life / Culture / Music” in the following table:

KU113: Concerts arranged by Estonian concert organisers by county.

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

In compliance with the rules (regulations)

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

The accuracy of source data is monitored by assessing the methodological soundness of data sources and the adherence to the methodological recommendations.

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 according to the release calendar.

14.2. Punctuality

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

15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical

Not applicable

15.2. Comparability - over time

There are interruptions in the time series. The data for 2013–2018 and 2019–2020 are comparable. The reasons for the changes are the following:

1. The entire time series has been calculated for all of Estonia. Data are published by county starting from 2019.

2. Changes in data sources. Until 2018, data were collected through the web-based electronic data submission channel eSTAT with the questionnaire "Music". From 2019, only data obtained by web scraping are used.

3. The concepts explained in the database have changed over time. While before 2018 it was also possible to view the breakdown by genre, it was then replaced by county distribution.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Data are not comparable with other statistics due to differences in the data collection tools. A more detailed breakdown of concert visits by music genre, county and socio-demographic characteristics can be found in the table of the Participation in Culture survey at KUT028: At-least-fifteen-year-old persons by concert visits in the previous 12 months, genre of music and place of residence / group of persons.

15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable

16. Cost and burden

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 1,500 objects. All objects have been observed.

In 2018, additional data from web scraping (ticket sales websites Piletilevi and Piletimaailm, and cultural event promoting website kultuur.info) were used.

The sample was based on the enterprises and institutions which are related to the organisation of concerts according to the Estonian Classification of Economic Activities as follows: 90012 Production and presentation of live concerts, musical creation and other similar activities and 90021 Support activities to performing arts (from this section, the activities of producers and organisers of concerts). The sample was supplemented with units which had organised live music concerts during the reference period according to the Estonian Authors' Society or had received support from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for the organisation of live music concerts over the past two years.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Wider use of Estonian cultural events calendar kultuur.info is in methodological development.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Annual

18.3. Data collection

Since 2019, only web scraping data are used. Previously the data were collected with the questionnaire “Music” on eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires.

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 will be used.

Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing the 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 new variables.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures, such as the average, median, dispersion, etc.

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

To obtain the number of concert organisers and concert goers for 2018, data collected with the statistical questionnaire and web scraping data were combined. Concert attendance in 2018 is based only on the number of tickets sold through Piletimaailm and Piletilevi and includes only tickets sold or distributed for free. Since 2019, only data from web scraping are published.

The number of concert organisers in counties reflects the organisers who have organised concerts in the respective county. As one concert organiser can operate in several counties in a year, the indicator for all of Estonia is not comparable with the data of counties.

An event taking place in different places is not divisible between counties. In this case, a county is not specified.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable

19. Comments

The structure of the table was changed on 01.10.2020.

In 2018, the data sources changed and also web scraping data were adopted.

Since 2019, only web scraping data are used.

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