Statistics of economic units
Economically active units by economic activity, type of owner, legal form, county or administrative unit, size group by number of employed persons | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 Type of owner Classification of legal forms Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK) International Standard Codes for the Representation of the Names of Countries (ISO 3166) Classification of institutional sectors (ESA_S 2010) | |
Includes data on all economic units active in Estonia, except households and the embassies of foreign countries | |
Calendar year profile — the frame of active economic units which were active during the calendar year. The calendar year profile is compiled in October of the next year, when most of the data on the reference year is available. It is used for production of annual economic statistics. Economic unit — enterprise, non-profit association, foundation, government institution and local government institution. Enterprise consists of one or more companies (public limited company, private limited company, limited partnership, general partnership, commercial association) or branches of foreign companies or sole proprietors. Non-profit association, foundation and institution — non-profit association, foundation, government institution, local government institution. Active units are units that showed signs of economic activity during the year (turnover, employees, investments, etc.). “Life signs” available from other data sources are also considered. Type of owner — a basis for the classification of owners is capital involvement (majority of votes) in the company. If the capital involvement of the state or local government in the company is 50% or more, it is a public sector company. A company belongs to the private sector, if the state or local government has no less or than 50% capital involvement in the company. Statistical profile — the frame of economic units that were active during the year when the profile was compiled, including units that were active for only a part of the year. The frame is compiled in October and it is used for the production of annual statistics of the same year and short-term statistics of the following year. | |
Legal unit Enterprise Local unit Local kind-of-activity unit Kind-of-activity unit Enterprise group | |
Economic units that are part of the national accounts and regional accounts system – enterprises, non-profit associations, foundations, government institutions, local government institutions. FRAME Business register for statistical purposes | |
Estonia as a whole Administrative units Counties | |
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DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS 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) Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 establishing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2 and amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 as well as certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains OTHER LEGAL ACTS Not available OTHER AGREEMENTS Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) |
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Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month). | |
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Data are published under the subject area “Economy / Economic units” in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat. | |
The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 33, § 34, § 35, § 36, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes. | |
Responding to queries | |
Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 of 15 March 1993 on the statistical units for the observation and analysis of the production system in the Community Business Registers Recommendations Manual, Eurostat International Guidelines on Statistical Business Registers, UNECE | |
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Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Government and local government institutions Non-profit organisations Research and educational institutions Entrepreneurs Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia) | |
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The business register for statistical purposes includes all legal units registered in Estonia and their data comply with the data composition requirements of Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament of the Council. |
The data are comparable with the data of other European Union (EU) countries. When compiling data for Estonia, the business register for statistical purposes is used, which is in compliance with the requirements of the EU regulation. The data are also comparable within Estonia. The data are compiled and published for Estonia, by counties and by municipalities. The time series of published data was changed as a result of the administrative reform at the end of 2017. The data for 2017 were published twice – based on the administrative division prior to the reform and based on the new division. | |
The data have been compiled since 1995 when the data of economic units started to be published according to the Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK, based on NACE), size class of employees and type of owner. In 2000, the breakdown by legal form, county and administrative unit was added. The data for 2017 were published twice – based on the administrative division prior to the reform and based on the new division. | |
The statistical activity “Statistics of economic units”, similarly to statistical activities 20901 “Business register for statistical purposes” and 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, uses annual population of economic units, but the data of the three statistical activities differ slightly. The data are compiled at different points in time, where information on units in the reference year population differs. The cross-domain coherence will be improved by implementing calendar year population of economic units and its adoption in all three statistical activities, which is planned for the near future. When comparing the data of the Centre of Registers and Information Systems (RIK) and the data of the Statistical Profile, the following should be taken into account: - the data of the RIK on units registered in legal registers have been presented as of 1 January of current year and the data of the statistical profile include all units, which were economically active in previous and potentially economically active in current year; - the data on the main economic activities in the RIK and in the Statistical Profile may be different due to independent updating of those databases; - the RIK looks at apartment associations as a separate legal form, in the statistical profile they are considered as non-profit associations. | |
The data have been compiled since 1995 when the data of economic units started to be published according to the Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK, based on NACE), size class of employees and type of owner. In 2000, the breakdown by legal form, county and administrative unit was added. The data for 2017 were published twice – based on the administrative division prior to the reform and based on the new division. |
The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics of 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. |
SURVEY DATA Not used ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Not used DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activity 20901 “Business register for statistical purposes” are used. The statistics of economic units are based on the business register for statistical purposes and statistical profile. | |
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The validation process consists of arithmetic and quality checks. Before data dissemination, internal coherence of the data is checked. | |
The sources for the data on economic units are the business register for statistical purposes and statistical profile. The data of business register for statistical purposes are obtained from the commercial register, non-profit associations and foundations register, register of taxable persons, and state register of state and local government institutions. In addition to legal registers, other data sources are used, such as the data of the Tax and Customs Board as well as statistical and financial reports. All registered units are entered into the statistical register for business purposes. At the end of each year, the units active during the year are selected, including those that were active for only a part of the year. | |
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