Statistics Estonia revised the data of internal migration for 2011

Migration statistics are based on the data from the Population Register. “The Population Register updated its information system as a result of which there was a technical failure in the transmission of the internal migration data to Statistics Estonia and many of the internal migration events doubled,” explained the reason for revision a Leading Statistician Helerin Rannala. “Now the necessary revisions have been made and internal migration has been corrected,” she added.

“When due to the incorrect data the biggest loss in population was in Tartu and Pärnu cities, then after the revision we can say that Tartu and Kohtla-Järve cities lost the biggest number of population because of internal migration (471 and 294 persons, respectively),” said Ms Rannala. “Tallinn is still the city that won most of the population (2,299 persons),” she explained.

The biggest numeric changes due to revision occurred in Tallinn, Pärnu and Viljandi cities and in Harku, Kiili, Paikuse, Sauga, Kohila, Tartu and Pärsti rural municipalities.

Internal migration is a change of the place of residence where a person changes the place of residence within Estonia, crossing the county’s, city’s or rural municipality’s borders.