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Electricity production decreased last year

Date 03.09.2019
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According to Statistics Estonia, in 2018, the production of electricity totalled 12 terawatt hours, which is 6% less than in the previous year. Electricity production from renewable sources increased by 8%.

Experimental statistics

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The aim of experimental statistics is to seek new ways of producing statistics that would allow users quick and convenient access to relevant and necessary information.

To produce experimental statistics we use:

  • data linking and combining;
  • new data sources (e.g. electricity consumption data of Elering, data of mobile network operators);
  • new methods (e.g. web scraping, machine learning);
  • modern visualisation solutions (e.g. R Shiny and Flourish).

The output of experimental statistics may diverge from the traditional requirements of official statistics such as harmonisation, coverage

In the second quarter, Estonian economy contracted by 6.9%

Date 31.08.2020
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According to Statistics Estonia, in the 2nd quarter of 2020, the gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 6.9% compared to the 2nd quarter of 2019. The GDP at current prices was 6.4 billion euros.