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  4. Registered accidents at work

Registered accidents at work

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Population and Social Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Tea Vassiljeva

1.4. Contact person function

Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

tea.vassiljeva [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

37253269091

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

Accidents at work and fatal accidents at work by sex, age group and economic activity

Accidents at work resulting in more than 3 days’ absence from work and rate of reported accidents at work by sex and sector of economy

3.2. Classification system

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

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO 08)

3.3. Sector coverage

Employed persons, excl. self-employed persons

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Accident at work – physical or mental harm or death of the employee in the course of work which occurred while fulfilling the task given by the employer or in other work done under his authorisation, during the break included in the working time or at other time acting in the interests of the employer.

It excludes:

- accidents on the way to or from work (commuting accidents);

- occurrences having only a medical origin (such as a heart attack at work) and occupational diseases;

- injuries caused deliberately by the employee.

Estimated number of accidents at work – estimated total number of accidents at work which is derived by expanding the number of registered accidents at work by the estimation from the Labour Force Survey

Fatal accident at work – an accident which leads to the death of a victim within one year of the accident

Primary sector – agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing

Registered accident at work – accidents at work that are reported to the Labour Inspectorate

Reporting rate of accidents at work – the share of the reported accidents at work in the estimated number of accidents at work

Secondary sector – mining, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water supply, construction

Tertiary sector – trade, services, education, health, etc.

3.5. Statistical unit

Registered accident at work

3.6. Statistical population

Registered accidents at work

FRAME

Accidents at work registered at the Labour Inspectorate

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

3.8. Time coverage

1994–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Registered accidents at work – number, cases per 100,000 employed persons

Fatal accidents at work – number, cases per 100,000 employed persons

5. Reference period

Year

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Commission Regulation (EU) No 349/2011 of 11 April 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work, as regards statistics on accidents at work

Regulation (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

International Labour Organization (ILO)

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

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 dissemination of data collected for the production of official statistics is based on the requirements laid down in §§ 34 and 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The principles for treatment of confidential data can be found here.

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 / Worklife quality / Accidents at work” in the following tables:

TKA05: Accidents at work resulting in more than 3 days absence from work by sex

TKA06: Accidents at work resulting in more than 3 days absence from work by sector of economy

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

European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW). Summary methodology. Eurostat (2013)

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3859598/5926181/KS-RA-12-102-EN.PDF/56cd35ba-1e8a-4af3-9f9a-b3c47611ff1c

10.7. Quality documentation

A Quality Report complying with requirements is sent to Eurostat.

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 Social Affairs

Tallinn City Office

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

The statistics on accidents at work are in compliance with the European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW) methodology.

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

Data on registered accidents at work are considered underestimated as employers do not report all accidents to the Labour Inspectorate (especially in the case of minor accidents).

The increase in the number of accidents at work in the time series indicates some improvement in reporting over years.

The number of fatal accidents can be considered accurate.

13.2. Sampling error

Not applicable

13.3. Non-sampling error

Eurostat and the national statistical insititutes try to reduce non-sampling errors through continuous methodological and survey process improvements, e.g. by adopting computer-assisted price collection, which can help to avoid coding and typing errors.

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

The data are submitted to Eurostat and the International Labour Organization (ILO) 180 days after the end of the reference year (T + 180).

14.2. Punctuality

The data are submitted on time.

15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical

International statistics on accidents at work are based on the common ESAW (European Statistics on Accidents at Work) methodology. However, differences in unemployment insurance systems should be taken into account in cross-country comparisons.

15.2. Comparability - over time

In general, comparability over time is good. However, when interpreting the data, it should be considered that the reporting of accidents at work has improved over time.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

When comparing data from different sources, methodological differences should be kept in mind.

15.4. Coherence - internal

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

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

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

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Not used

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Data on registered accidents at work (micro-data and aggregated data) are received from the Labour Inspectorate. The source data are transmitted and used for calculating the estimated total number of accidents at work (for international statistics). The aggregated data on registered accidents at work (incl. fatal accidents) by sex, age and economic activity are also transmitted.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Data from statistical activity “Labour Force Survey” are used.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Annual

18.3. Data collection

Statistics Estonia receives data from the Labour Inspectorate in xls format by e-mail.

18.4. Data validation

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data. Before data dissemination, the internal coherence of the data is checked.

18.5. Data compilation

Aggregated data compiled by the Labour Inspectorate are used in official statistics.

The number of accidents at work represents the number of injured persons – if multiple persons were injured in a single accident, these are considered as separate accidents. Also, the number of fatal accidents is included in the total number of accidents at work.

To calculate the number of accidents at work per 100,000 employees, Labour Force Survey data on the number of persons employed is used.

For international purposes the total number of accidents at work is estimated by weighting (weights are derived from the data of Labour Force Survey).

18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable

19. Comments

Not available

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