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Since 1996 the Statistical Office conducts reputation surveys and user surveys. The survey is conducted at least once a year, the existing as well as potential consumers are interviewed. The aims of user surveys are: to find out the reputation of the Statistical Office among consumers, to find out the need for statistical information, to study the consumers’ preferences in using various statistical products, to get the necessary information for production development. The results of the surveys are applied for better serving the consumers, as well as in improvement of products. Surveys 2021

The main task of Statistics Estonia is to provide reliable and objective information about Estonia. In order to do that, Statistics Estonia collects data from databases, enterprises and individuals. For nearly half of the questionnaires, we use data from databases, but in order to produce statistics, we also need information that is not available there. Therefore, respondents, both enterprises and individuals, have a crucial role to play in producing reliable statistics. The data submitted to Statistics Estonia are carefully protected. We use the data only for the production of official

Methodology and quality reports are a part of metadata, that is, information describing statistical data. These reports describe the production and release of statistics: data collection, data aggregation, release policy, institutional mandate, comparability, accessibility, accuracy, and so on. This information gives users a better understanding of statistics and allows an assessment of the reliability of the published data and their suitability for reuse. Methodology and quality reports are based on the SIMS (Single Integrated Metadata Structure) standard, developed by the European