Social insurance (until 2015)
Pensioners by type of pension, sex and age group; average pension. Benefits of health insurance, expenditure of health insurance and persons covered by health insurance. Family benefits, social benefits, benefits for disabled persons, families receiving child allowance, persons receiving single parent’s child allowance, persons receiving parental benefit. Persons receiving unemployment allowance and unemployment insurance benefits; average unemployment insurance benefit; persons receiving insurance benefit upon lay-off and average benefit; persons receiving benefit upon insolvency of employer and average benefit. | |
Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK) | |
Social protection | |
Health insurance – a state warranty system for paying compensation to the residents of the Republic of Estonia for retaining health, paying the expenses of temporary incapacity for work and costs of medical treatment, and pregnancy and maternity benefits. National pension – the pension granted to a person who does not have the right to receive the old-age pension, the pension for incapacity for work or the survivor’s pension because he/she has not completed a sufficient number of years of pensionable service or his/her accumulation period is insufficient. Old-age pension – the pension granted to persons who have attained the pensionable age and who have completed at least 15 years of pensionable service. Parental benefit – benefit for parent with children up to 18 months old, remains previous average salary with limitations. Pension for full length of service required – the pension granted to persons in such professions that bring about the loss of or reduction in the professional capacity for work before attaining the pensionable age and thus persons cannot continue work in that profession. Pension for incapacity for work – the pension granted to persons from 16 years of age until attaining the pensionable age if he or she is declared permanently incapacitated for work. Survivor’s pension – upon the death of a provider, a survivor’s pension shall be granted to family members who were maintained by him/her and are incapacitated for work. Unemployment insurance – a type of compulsory insurance the purpose of which is to provide, upon unemployment, partial compensation for the lost income to insured persons for the time of the search for work, and partial compensation of the expenses related to the collective termination of employment contracts and service relationships to employers, and the protection of the claims of the employees upon insolvency of employers. | |
Person | |
Persons covered by social insurance FRAME Not applicable. | |
Estonia as a whole Counties | |
Pension insurance 1970–… Health insurance 1995–… Unemployment insurance 2003–… Social benefits 1993–… | |
Not applicable. |
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. |
Not published. | |
„Eesti statistika aastaraamat. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia” | |
Data are published under the heading „Social life/ Social protection” 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 activities 40509 „European System of Integrated Social Protection Statistics (ESSPROS)”, 50101 „Estonian regional development” and 50201 „Sustainable development indicators (dashboard)”. | |
„Sotsiaalkaitse kogukulutuste (ESSPROS) käsiraamat” (in Estonian), Statistics Estonia (2012) http://www.stat.ee/metoodika ESSPROS Manual. The European System of integrated Social PROtection Statistics (ESSPROS), Eurostat (2011) http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/product_details/publication?p_product_code=KS-RA-11-014 | |
Quality report on the ESSPROS core system; quality report on the ESSPROS net social benefits module; quality report on the ESSPROS pension beneficiaries module |
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 Social Affairs 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. | |
Administrative data show only the statistics of public authorities. |
The data are released: Unemployment insurance 50 days upon the end of the reference quarter (T+50); Pension insurance 50 days upon the end of the reference quarter (T+50) and 75 days upon the end of the reference year (T+75); Health insurance 125 days upon the end of the reference year (T+125); Social insurance benefits 145 days upon the end of the reference year (T+145). annual data (survey period – quarter) (2012) T+74 (2011) T+125 (2010) T+125 (2009) T+125 (2008) T+126 (2007) T+108 | |
The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender. |
Geographical comparability is available nationally. International comparison must take into account differences in national social security systems. | |
The data are comparable across time. | |
When comparing data from different sources methodological differences need to be kept in mind. | |
The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent. |
SURVEY DATA Not used. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA The following data are received from the Social Insurance Board: state pension insurance (number of recipients, sum of pensions, average monthly pension by type of pension); family benefits (number of recipients and sum by type); social benefits for disabled persons (number of recipients and sum by type); other benefits and payments (number of recipients and sum by type); number of pensioners by type of pension and age group. The following data are received from the Estonian Health Insurance Fund: health insurance expenditure; number of certificates of incapacity for work; number of recompensable days; total payments; number of persons covered by health insurance; number of employees in the Estonian Health Insurance Fund. The following data are received from the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund: unemployment insurance benefit, insurance benefit upon lay-off, benefit upon insolvency of employer and unemployment allowance. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Not used. | |
Year Quarter | |
Aggregated data from administrative data sources via e-mail | |
The data are compared with the data of previous periods. | |
The indicators to be published are calculated on the basis of the collected data. | |
Not applicable. |