Communication services (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

Fixed voice services and mobile communication services (quarterly, annual data)

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

Telecommunication

Electronic communication service – a service which consists wholly or mainly of transmission or conveyance of signals over the electronic communications network under the agreed conditions. Network services are also electronic communication services.

Enterprise

Enterprises providing electronic communication services

FRAME

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

Estonia as a whole

2002–…

Not applicable.

Calls – number (million)

Duration of calls – million minutes

Year

Quarter

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

Quarter

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 services are released 120 days upon the end of the reference quarter (T+120), the data of postal services 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 services questionnaires „Calls in the mobile phone network”, „Calls in the permanent network” and „Postal services” received from the Estonian Competition Authority. Since 2015 the data is transmitted by Technical Regulatory Authority.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used.

Year

Quarter

Data is gained from administrative data sources 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.