Agricultural output price index
Statistical activity code: 20406
Agricultural output price index | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 | |
Agricultural producers | |
Agricultural output price index expresses changes in the prices of agricultural products produced in Estonia. | |
Enterprise | |
Enterprises whose main or secondary activity is agriculture FRAME List of active enterprises whose main or secondary activity is agriculture. The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes | |
Estonia as a whole | |
1997–… | |
Starting from the 1st quarter of 2009, the agricultural output price index is published on the base 2005 = 100. To ensure comparability with previous periods, years 2003–2008 have been rebased. |
DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on the European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union (Text with EEA relevance) Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 December 2003 on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community Commission Regulation (EC) No 212/2008 of 7 March 2008 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community Commission Regulation (EC) No 306/2005 of 24 February 2005 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community Commission Regulation (EC) No 909/2006 of 20 June 2006 amending Annexes I and II to Regulation (EC) No 138/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the economic accounts for agriculture in the Community OTHER LEGAL ACTS Not available OTHER AGREEMENTS Not available |
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Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Prices” in the following tables: IA146: Agricultural output price index, change over previous year IA1471: Agricultural output price index, 2015 = 100 (quarters) IA148: Agricultural input price index, change over previous year IA1491: Agricultural input price index, 2015 = 100 (quarters) | |
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Data serve as input for statistical activities 21401 “National accounts (annual)”, 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21406 “Regional GDP”, 21408 “Supply and use tables”, 20007 “Financial statistics of enterprises (quarterly)” and 21207 “Economic accounts for agriculture”. | |
Agricultural product and input price statistics. Handbook, Eurostat (2020) | |
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In compliance with the methodology described in “Handbook for EU Agricultural Price Statistics”, Eurostat (2008). All the main groups of the price index for agricultural output are covered. |
The agricultural output price index (API) covers entire country and are comparable with other European Union countries. | |
The agricultural output price indices (API) are comparable across time. The indices can be chain-linked to make comparisons over time. | |
There are no direct benchmark figures to check cross domain coherence. | |
The internal consistency of the data is ensured by the use of a common methodology for data collection and data aggregation. The sub-indices are coherent with the total index. |
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The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available. |
SURVEY DATA Population is 2,500 objects. The sample includes 25 objects. An expert sample is drawn from enterprises with higher sales volume by goods and services typical of the country. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Selected survey data from the Estonian Institute of Economic Research DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activities 21206 “Purchase and use of milk”, 21207 “Economic accounts for agriculture”, 20408 “Producer price index of industrial output” and 20407 “Consumer price index” are used. | |
Monthly | |
Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the monthly statistical questionnaire “Producer price of agricultural products. Fruit and flowers”. Price information is collected by sample survey, which includes enterprises producing or buying agricultural products. Prices of agricultural products produced in Estonia are registered monthly. | |
The input data are checked and, if necessary, corrected according to specified rules, and the compliance of calculated statistics with the quality requirements is checked as well: comparisons are made with previous periods, internal coherence, the coverage of the population and the response rate are checked. | |
On the bases of collected data Laspeyres-type price indices are calculated. For computation of lowest-level indices arithmetic mean prices are used. Microdata are aggregated to the required level. Statistics Estonia updates the weights system and base prices for calculation of the agricultural output price index once in five years in accordance with Eurostat's methodology. The weights system corresponds to the sale structure of agricultural products. The quarterly index has been calculated as the weighted average of three months. The annual index has been calculated as the weighted average of twelve months. | |
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