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Wages and salaries and labour costs

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For work, people receive pay, or wages and salaries, which is agreed compensation for fulfilling work tasks. In addition to the sum that the employer pays to the employee, the employer pays labour taxes on that sum, which together with the wages constitute labour costs. Wages are an important source of income, and their main purpose is to cover expenses on dwelling, food, transportation and other basic needs. This is why the law regulates the minimum an employee could be paid for full-time work. The minimum wage is set to protect the well-being of employees. The statistics on wages and

Eurostat Committee will visit Estonia

Kuupäev 01.06.2009
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On 4–5 June, the Eurostat committee estimating the correspondence of the methodology of Member States’ financial statistics to the international standards will visit Statistics Estonia.

Luca Ascoli: Estonian financial statistics are on a high level

Kuupäev 05.06.2009
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On 4–5 June, the Eurostat committee assessing the correspondence of the methodology of Member States’ financial statistics to the international standards was visiting Statistics Estonia.

Albert Pullerits prize awarded to Tuuli Jürgenson

Kuupäev 05.10.2021
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This year’s recipient of the Albert Pullerits young statistician’s prize awarded by Statistics Estonia is Tuuli Jürgenson for her Master’s thesis “Combining Retrospective and Prospective Data for Genome-wide Association Studies”.

284,300 Estonian residents at risk of poverty in 2018

Kuupäev 18.12.2019
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According to Statistics Estonia, 21.7% of the Estonian population lived at risk of poverty and 2.4% lived in absolute poverty in 2018. Compared to 2017, the share of people at risk of poverty decreased by 0.2 percentage points and the share of those living in absolute poverty by 0.3 percentage points.

The share of men receiving parental benefit increased

Kuupäev 29.06.2021
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According to Statistics Estonia, in 2020, men accounted for slightly more than a fifth of the 34,570 persons receiving parental benefit. The average monthly parental benefit was 1,170 euros for women and 1,638 euros for men. The parental benefit gap was the lowest ever.

Laureates

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Kadi Kilgi (2022) Master’s thesis “ Predicting Hospitalization Risk Among Patients With Chronic Diseases” defended at the University of Tartu. Diana Sokurova (2020) Master’s thesis “Reducing the Reporting Burden on Health Professionals by Rolling and Two Occasions Designs” defended at the University of Tartu. Papuna Gogoladze (2019) Master’s thesis „Gender Income Gap over Life-cycle: Cross-country Analysis“ defended at the University of Tartu. Sven Erik Ojavee (2018) Master’s thesis "Estimating Ancestry Using Genome Data: The Analysis of Estonian Genome Center Data" completed at Tartu

General Government’s deficit stayed within limits

Kuupäev 30.09.2009
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According to adjusted data of Statistics Estonia, the Estonian general government sector deficit in 2008 was 2.7% and gross debt level was 4.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). General government budget’s deficit remained within the limits set out in the Maastricht Treaty.