Import price index
Import price index | |
Classification of Products by Activity (CPA) Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 | |
All importers of goods | |
Import price index – an index that expresses the change in the prices of imported goods | |
Enterprise | |
Enterprises which have imported goods from foreign countries to Estonia FRAME List of importers from foreign trade statistics | |
Estonia as a whole | |
1998–… | |
The base period for the index is December 1997 = 100. |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1197 of 30 July 2020 laying down technical specifications and arrangements pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European business statistics repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance) Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics, repealing 10 legal acts in the field of business statistics (Text with EEA relevance) OTHER LEGAL ACTS Not available OTHER AGREEMENTS Not available |
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The news release “Producer price index of industrial output, export and import price index” once a month. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section News. | |
Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Prices” in the following tables: IA045 Export and import price index by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), 2010 = 100 (months) | |
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Data serve as input for statistical activities 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21408 “Supply and use tables”, 22303 “Foreign trade” and 20405 “Agricultural input price index”. | |
Export and Import Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice (2009) European Business Statistics Manual (2021 edition) European Business Statistics Methodological Manual for Short-Term Business Statistics (2021 edition) European Business Statistics Compilers’ Manual for Short-Term Business Statistics (2021 edition) | |
The reports from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament concerning Short-Term Statistics, PEEI in focus |
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In compliance with with the volume and deadlines of the European Union requirements: Council Regulation (EC) No 2019/2152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 on European business statistics. |
The import price index (ImPI) covers entire country and are comparable with other European Union countries. | |
The import price indices (ImPI) are comparable across time. The indices can be chain-linked to make comparisons over time. | |
There are no direct benchmark figures to check cross domain coherence. | |
The internal consistency of the data is ensured by the use of a common methodology for data collection and data aggregation. The sub-indices are coherent with the total index. |
The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics on the website of Statistics Estonia. | |
The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available within three months from the end of the reference period. |
SURVEY DATA Total population is 26,000 objects. The sample includes 500 objects. An expert choice is made based on the share of goods in imports. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Not used DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activity 22303 “Foreign trade” are used. | |
Monthly | |
Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the monthly official statistics questionnaire “Import price”. | |
The input data are checked and, if necessary, corrected according to specified rules. The compliance of estimated statistics with the quality requirements is checked as well: comparisons are made with previous periods, internal coherence, the coverage of the total population and the response rate are checked. | |
On the bases of collected data Laspeyres-type price indices are calculated. Microdata are aggregated on the required level. The import price index is calculated since 1998. In the current year (t) the base prices in calculating the index are the prices of the last year December. The price data are collected directly from main importers. The weight structure of the import price index is based on the value of imports of the year t-2. The annual index has been calculated as the average of twelve months. | |
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