Communications (until 2016)

Statistics Estonia

Enterprise and Agricultural Statistics Department

Ruth Renter

Leading Statistician-Methodologist

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

ruth.renter [at] stat.ee

+372 625 9233

23/03/2016

23/03/2016

Electronic communications customers and customer lines; postal access points

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

Telecommunication, postal and courier services

Electronic communication network – a transmission system including switching equipment and other support systems for the transmission or conveyance of signals by way of a cable or by radio, optical or other electromagnetic means. Electronic communication networks include also the satellite network, telephone network, data communication network, mobile telephone network, broadcasting network, cable network and electric cable system, if used for the transmission or conveyance of signals, regardless of the nature of information transmitted over such networks.

Customer – a person using publicly available electronic communication services who has a contract with a communication undertaking for the use of the publicly available electronic communication services.

Postal service – delivery of addressed postal package from the sender to the receiver.

Post office – postal access point where one can get only universal postal service and it is possible to get other services which are possible through contracts and agreements (for example payout of pensions or other social aids, receiving different payments).

Post office box – rentable mailbox in postal access point, where the mail is redirected to.

Post outlet – postal access point where one can get only universal postal services.

Enterprise

Enterprises providing electronic communication services and licensed providers of postal services

FRAME

Technical Regulatory Authority’s (before 2015 Competition Authority´s) list of active communication enterprises

Estonia as a whole

1980, 1985, 1990, 1991, 1992–…

Not applicable.

Postal packages – number (thousand)

Electronic communication lines and customers – number (thousand)

Year

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT

Not available.

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

COINS Questionnaire Gentlemen's Agreement

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat)

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/66485.

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).

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

All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar.

Year

Not published.

„Eesti statistika aastaraamat. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia”

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 used.

The questionnaire and methodological manual of Eurostat

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 of communication are released 120 days upon the end of the reference year (T+120), the data of post offices 210 days upon the end of the reference year (T+210).

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

The data are comparable with the data of other European Union Member States.

The data are comparable with data on the same indicators collected from enterprises in previous years.

Not applicable.

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

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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 or when the data for the following year are released.

SURVEY DATA

Not used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Data is collected with the communication networks questionnaires „Telecommunication services” and „Postal access points” received from the Estonian Competition Authority.

Since 2015 the data is transmitted by Technical Regulatory Authority.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used.

Year

Data is gained from administrative data source through direct access to the FTP server and database.

The data is validated by the data controller.

Data received from Technical Regulatory Authority (formerly Competition Authority) is aggregated to a level for analysis.

Not applied.

Not available.