Statistics Estonia revised the data of internal migration for 2011

According to Statistics Estonia, in 2011, 36,137 persons changed their place of residence which is 2,407 people less than the data published in May showed. Due to the revision of internal migration data the population figure of several local governments changed.

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.

Estonia’s internal migration, 2011
	Immigration		Emigration		Net migration
	Preliminary	Revised	Preliminary	Revised	Preliminary	Revised
Harku rural municipality	1 507	954	595	591	912	363
Tartu rural municipality	638	357	88	215	550	142
Kiili rural municipality	546	256	179	184	367	72
Pärsti rural municipality	386	123	204	169	182	-46
Paikuse rural municipality	392	163	134	116	258	47
Kohila rural municipality	388	242	251	236	137	6
Sauga rural municipality	391	262	174	168	217	94
Viljandi city	583	585	713	505	-130	80
Pärnu city	1 075	1 086	1 480	1 264	-405	-178
Tallinn	9 723	9 592	8 293	7 293	1 430	2 299

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.

For further information:

Helerin Rannala
Leading Statistician
Population Statistics Service
Statistics Estonia
Tel +372 625 8487

More detailed data have been published in the Statistical Database (revised data of internal migration and revised data of population figure).