Annual accounts of information and communication technology sector (until 2015)

Statistics Estonia

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

Tiina Pärson

Leading Statistician-Methodologist

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

tiina.parson [at] stat.ee

+372 625 9233

09/01/2015

09/01/2015

Income statement; assets, liabilities and equity; value added and productivity measures, investments in fixed assets by number of persons employed in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector

Estonian Classifcation of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2

ICT sector:Manufacture of electronic components and boards, Manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment, Manufacture of communication equipment, Manufacture of consumer electronics, Manufacture of magnetic and optical media, Wholesale of information and communication equipment, Software publishing, Telecommunications, Computer programming, consultancy and related activities, Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals, Repair of computers and communication equipment

Information and communications technologies (ICT) sector – economic activities, which are primarily intended to fulfil or enable the function of information processing and communication by electronic means, including transmission and display. (The definition of OECD is used in order to guarantee the international comparability of the data.)

Information and communications technologies (ICT) manufacturing sector – manufacturing industries, which products are primarily intended to fulfil the function of information processing and communication by electronic means, including transmission and display.

Information and communications technologies (ICT) services sector – manufacturing industries, which services are primarily intended to enable the function of information processing and communication by electronic means.

Enterprise – company

Enterprises whose main activity is the manufacture of electronic components and boards; manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment; manufacture of communication equipment; manufacture of consumer electronics; manufacture of magnetic and optical media; wholesale of information and communication equipment; software publishing; telecommunications; computer programming, consultancy and related activities; data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals; repair of computers and communication equipment.

FRAME

List of active enterprises, excluding financial intermediation enterprises. The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.

Estonia as a whole

2005–…

Not applicable.

Financial data – euro

Year

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT

Not available.

Official Statistics Act

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Not available.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The treatment of confidential data is regulated by the Procedure for Protection of Data Collected and Processed by Statistics Estonia: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/19410.

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http://www.stat.ee/release-calendar

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Year

Not published.

Not published.

Data are published under the heading „Economy/ Information technology and communications” in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34, § 35, § 36, § 37, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to micro-data and anonymisation of micro-data are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s „Procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes”: http://www.stat.ee/dokumendid/51669.

Not published.

The economic activities of the ICT sector and the main indicators have been defined by the OECD Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society (WPIIS)

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/49/17/38217340.pdf

Not available.

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. „Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

Users’ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website http://www.stat.ee/tooplaan.

Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys.

All results are available on the website http://www.stat.ee/user-surveys.

In compliance with the rules (regulations).

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

Not applicable.

Not measured.

The data are released 442 days upon the end of the reference year (T+442).

(2012) T+79

(2011) T+77

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender.

It is unknown whether similar data are published in other European Union Member States.

The data are comparable across time.

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The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

Total time of filling in reports of statistical actions, working days: 7,8

Average time of filling in the reports, hours per report:

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the dissemination policy of Statistics Estonia http://www.stat.ee/dissemination-policy.

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, if errors are discovered, if new or better data become available.

SURVEY DATA

Not used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Annual reports of enterprises are received from the Commercial Register. Data on the following tax returns are received from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board: value added tax return (form KMD); declaration of income and social tax, unemployment insurance premiums and contributions to mandatory funded pension (form TSD).

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Data from statistical activity 20300 „Annual financial statistics of enterprises” are used.

Year

Not applicable.

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data. Before data dissemination, several checks on the internal coherence of the data are carried out.

The indicators to be published are calculated on the basis of the collected data.

Not applicable.

Not available.