Granted building permits and completed construction works

Statistics Estonia

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

Merike Sinisaar

Leading Analyst

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

merike.sinisaar [at] stat.ee

3 726 259 291

10/02/2023

10/02/2023

Granted building permits and completed dwellings and non-residential buildings, their usable floor area and cubic capacity by type of construction, settlement and type of building.

Granted building permits and completed civil engineering works and their technical data by type of construction, county and type of civil engineering works.

Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK)

The list of purposes of use of construction works

All sectors

Building – a construction which is permanently attached to the ground, has a roof, envelope structure and interior space.

Building notice – informing the local government of building work prior to commencement of the work.

Building permit – the consent granted by a local government for:

- the erection of a construction, and the civil engineering works required to service the construction, on the land unit specified in the building permit;

- the extension of the construction, or a part thereof, specified in the building permit;

- the reconstruction of the construction, or a part thereof, specified in the building permit.

City settlement region – a settlement where most inhabitants live in regions where population density is greater than 1,000 inhabitants per km² and the population figure in a cluster of this density is greater than 5,000. Grid map data have been used for determining regions based on population density and population figure.

Civil engineering works – constructions which are not classified under buildings: railways, roads, bridges, etc.

Construction completed – the agreement on the part of a local government that a completed construction or a part thereof conforms to the requirements prescribed for such constructions and that it may be used for the intended purpose.

Construction started – owner’s statement to a local government about actual start of the construction works.

Dwelling – a one-family house, a section of a two-family or a terraced house, or a flat, which consists of one or more rooms, meets sanitary engineering requirements and is suitable for permanent residence.

Floor area of dwellings – total floor area of functionally connected rooms (bedrooms, dining rooms, living rooms, etc.) and secondary rooms (kitchen, hall, bathroom, toilet, pantry, storage room, built-in closet, veranda, walk-through area, etc.) necessary or suitable for living in.

Non-residential building – a building not intended for permanent residence.

Rural settlement region – a settlement where population density is lower than 200 inhabitants per km² or a region with higher population density where the population figure is under 5,000.

Town settlement region – a settlement where most inhabitants live in regions where population density is 200–1,000 inhabitants per km² and the population figure in a cluster of this density is greater than 5,000, but it does not constitute a city settlement region. Grid map data have been used for determining regions based on population density and population figure.

Use and occupancy notice – informing the local government in advance of the use and occupancy of a construction or of a change in its purpose of use.

Building permit, building notice

Completed dwelling or building; use and occupancy notice

Granted building permits and completed dwellings, non-residential buildings and civil engineering works, which have been entered in the register of construction works

FRAME

List of granted building permits and completed dwellings, non-residential buildings and civil engineering works. The list is generated from the register of construction works.

Estonia as a whole

1992–…

Not applicable

Number of buildings

Floor area of dwelling – m²

Useful floor area of building – m²

Volume of building – m³

Length of civil engineering works – m

Area under civil engineering works – m²

Year

Quarter

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)

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

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OTHER AGREEMENTS

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The dissemination of data collected for the production of official statistics is based on the requirements laid down in §§ 34 and 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The principles for treatment of confidential data can be found here.

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).

Calendar

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Annual

Quarterly

The news release “Construction” once a quarter. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section News.

Not published

Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Construction / Granted building permits and completed buildings” in the following tables:

EH04: Granted building permits and completed dwellings (new construction, quarterly)

EH044: Granted building permits and completed non-residential buildings (new construction, quarterly)

EH045: Granted building permits and completed dwellings by type of construction, county and type of residential building (quarterly)

EH046: Granted building permits and completed non-residential buildings by type of construction, county and type of buildings (quarterly)

EH047: Granted building permits and completed civil engineering works by type of construction, county and type of civil engineering works (quarterly)

EH05: Construction of new residential buildings

EH06: Dwelling completions (new construction)

EH44U: Dwelling completions by number of rooms and region/administrative unit after the 2017 administrative reform (new construction)

EH46U: Dwelling completions by type of building and region/administrative unit after the 2017 administrative reform (new construction)

EH47U: Non-residential building completions by type of building and region/administrative unit after the 2017 administrative reform (new construction)

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.

Data serve as input for statistical activities 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP” and 50101 “Regional development”.

European business statistics methodological manual for short-term business statistics, Eurostat (2021)

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In compliance with the rules (regulations)

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

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Not measured

The data are published, at the latest, 20 days after the end of the reference quarter (T + 20) and 60 days after the end of the reference year (T + 60).

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

The data are comparable with the data of other European Union countries because common methodology, concepts and definitions are used.

The data on granted building permits and completed dwellings are comparable starting from 1992, the data on non-residential buildings starting from 1993, and the data on civil engineering works starting from 2011.

Until 2011, the data covered only new construction. As of 2011, data on extensions and reconstruction are also available.

The data on completed buildings by municipality are comparable starting from 2017, as the borders of municipalities changed considerably after the 2017 administrative reform.

The data serve as a basis for 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”.

The data of construction permits allow assessing future construction activities. Due to time lag, the statistics of construction permits and use and occupancy permits are indirectly comparable to the data of statistical activity 20103 “Construction volume indices”.

Use of a common methodology during data aggregation ensures coherent data. Higher-level aggregations (type of construction and regional breakdown) are calculated from detailed data according to the list of construction use purposes.

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

The following data are received from the Register of Construction Works:

granted building permits and completed dwellings (number and floor area) by type of construction, county and type of residential building;

granted building permits and completed non-residential buildings (number, usable floor area and volume) by type of construction, county and type of building;

granted building permits and completed civil engineering works, area (distance) under civil engineering works by type of construction, county and type of civil engineering works;

number and floor area of completed dwellings by number of rooms, region and municipality – previous year's data;

number and floor area of completed dwellings by type of residential building, region and municipality – previous year's data;

number, usable floor area and volume of completed non-residential buildings by type of construction, region and municipality – previous year's data.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

Annual

Quarterly

Data are obtained from the Register of Construction Works via the X-Road data exchange layer.

The data are compared with the data of previous periods.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures.

The collected data are converted into statistical output.

Adjustment is carried out for the time series of dwelling and non-residential building completions. Time series are seasonally adjusted and trend-cycle is estimated.

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