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Whom will enumerators call in February, and why?

Kuupäev 10.02.2022

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The Population and Housing Census continues in February but on a smaller scale and mainly as phone interviews. Home visits, which were used during the previous census, will be kept to a minimum by Statistics Estonia, to prevent the spread of any viruses.

Household and family nucleus – what are these?

Kuupäev 06.09.2022

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Censuses introduce new terms that might be unfamiliar for most people, such as ‘household’, ‘family nucleus’, ‘partner’, and even such a peculiar concept as ‘non-family household’. What do all these terms mean and what is their purpose?

Population census. Population has changed the least in Ida-Viru county, the most in Lääne county

Kuupäev 23.11.2022

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Data from the 2021 census show that 84% of the current population lived in Estonia ten years ago as well, the proportion of people who have arrived from abroad has risen significantly, and the overall population of immigrants is increasingly international. For the last ten years, internal migration has been predominantly in the direction of Harju county.

Codes for the nature of transaction

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1 Financial leasing covers operations where the lease instalments are calculated in such a way as to cover the whole or almost the whole value of the goods. The risks and rewards of ownership are transferred to the lessee. At the end of the contract, the lessee becomes the legal owner of the goods. 2 This transaction type also includes goods exchange between a parent company and its associated companies. 3 Processing covers operations (transformation, construction, assembling, enhancement, renovation, etc.) with the objective of producing a new or significantly improved product. This does not

Producer price index of industrial output down by 3.3% from last year

Kuupäev 20.12.2023

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The producer price index of industrial output, which expresses changes in the producer prices of industrial goods manufactured in Estonia for the domestic market and for export, fell by 0.1% in November 2023 compared with October and by 3.3% compared with November last year, according to Statistics Estonia.

Producer price index of industrial output continued to fall

Kuupäev 22.01.2024

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The producer price index of industrial output, which expresses changes in the producer prices of industrial goods manufactured in Estonia for the domestic market and for export, fell by 0.8% in December 2023 compared with November and by 4.4% compared with December 2022.

In the first quarter, the economy contracted by 2.4%

Kuupäev 31.05.2024

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According to Statistics Estonia, in the first quarter of 2024, the gross domestic product (GDP) decreased by 2.4% compared with the same period of 2023. The GDP at current prices amounted to 8.9 billion euros.

At-risk-of-poverty rate is highest among the elderly, while among families with children it is highest for single parents (corrected on 09.12.2022)

Kuupäev 08.11.2022

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According to Statistics Estonia, 22.8% of Estonia’s population lived at risk of poverty and 1.4% in absolute poverty in 2021. Compared with 2020, the share of people living at risk of poverty rose 2.2% and the share of people living in absolute poverty fell 0.8%.

Average wages and salaries were €2,007 in Q2

Kuupäev 26.08.2024

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According to Statistics Estonia, the average monthly gross wages and salaries in the second quarter of 2024 were €2,007, which is 7.2% higher than in the same quarter the year before. The median wages were €1,641 in the second quarter of this year and €1,524 in the same quarter of 2023.

Are there more or less than a million Estonians in the world?

Kuupäev 23.03.2023

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According to preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, the population of Estonia on 1 January 2023 was 1,357,739, an increase by 2% (or 25,943 people) compared with a year earlier. Ene-Margit Tiit, an expert in population statistics, took a closer look at how many ethnic Estonians live here and how many Estonians there are in the world.