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Business register for statistical purposes

Statistical activity code: 20901

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Data Processing and Registers Department

1.3. Contact name

Svetlana Šutova

1.4. Contact person function

Leading Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

svetlana.shutova [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

+372 625 9346

2. Metadata update
2.1. Metadata last certified

10/02/2023

2.2. Metadata last update

10/02/2023

3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description

Identification, stratification and demographic data of economic units

3.2. Classification system

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)

3.3. Sector coverage

Includes data on all economic units active in Estonia, except households and embassies of foreign countries

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

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. 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.

Statistical profile — the preliminary 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 preliminary 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.

Type of owner — a basis for the classification of owners is capital involvement (majority of votes) in the company.

3.5. Statistical unit

Legal unit

Enterprise

Local unit

Local kind-of-activity unit

Kind-of-activity unit

Enterprise group

3.6. Statistical population

Economic units that are part of the national accounts and regional accounts system – enterprises and non-profit institutions

FRAME

Not applicable

3.7. Reference area

Not applicable

3.8. Time coverage

1995–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Statistical units – number

Employed persons – number and size group

Employees – number and size group

5. Reference period

Year

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

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

Not available

7. Confidentiality
7.1. Confidentiality - policy

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act.

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

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.

8. Release policy
8.1. Release calendar

Not applicable

8.2. Release calendar access

Calendar

8.3. User access

Not applicable

9. Frequency of dissemination

Not applicable

10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release

Not published

10.2. Publications

Not published

10.3. Online database

Not published

10.4. Microdata access

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.

10.5. Other

The purpose of the statistical activity is to create and maintain the population of economic units in the system of national and regional accounts, which is used as a frame for statistical activities (based on the data of economic units).

Data serve as input for statistical activities 20902 “Statistics of economic units”, 20903 “Business demography”, 20904 “Enterprise groups” and 21209 “Statistical register of agricultural holdings”.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

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

10.7. Quality documentation

Not available

11. Quality management
11.1. Quality assurance

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, the European Statistics Code of Practice and the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (ESS QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements in § 7, “Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

11.2. Quality assessment

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare an evaluation report, which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

12. Relevance
12.1. User needs

Ministry of Finance

State and local government institutions

Non-profit organisations

Enterprises

Research and educational institutions

Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia)

12.2. User satisfaction

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section User surveys.

12.3. Completeness

Maintenance and development of the business register for statistical purposes are in compliance with the requirements established in Regulation (EC) No 177/2008.

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

Used source data and thorough checking of the data ensure sufficient accuracy.

13.2. Sampling error

Not applicable

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not measured

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

The data are on time

14.2. Punctuality

Not applicable

15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical

The data are comparable with the data of other European Union countries.

15.2. Comparability - over time

The data are comparable over time.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

The register is used as a frame for the production of all economic statistics and partially for social statistics.

15.4. Coherence - internal

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

16. Cost and burden

17. Data revision
17.1. Data revision - policy

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.

17.2. Data revision - practice

Not applicable

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Not used

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

The following data are received from the Centre of Registers and Information Systems: data on registered companies, branches of foreign companies, sole proprietors, shareholders of companies, non-profit associations and foundations, government institutions and local government institutions and on their subdivisions and structural units.

Data of the register of taxable persons are received from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board.

Data on subsidiaries of Estonian companies located outside the European Union (EU) and in other EU countries are received from the Eesti Pank (the central bank of Estonia).

Data on units providing accommodation are received from Enterprise Estonia (EAS).

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Data from statistical activities 20007 “Financial statistics of enterprises (quarterly)”, 20300 “Financial statistics of enterprises (annual)”, 21106 “Labour cost index”, 21301 “Financial statistics of financial service activities and activities auxiliary to financial services (quarterly)”, 22303 “Foreign trade”, 40407 “Museum”, 40411 “Broadcasting” are used.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Continuously

18.3. Data collection

For the statistical activity “Business register for statistical purposes” data are not collected separately. The data from administrative registers and source data from other statistical activities are used as input.

Data from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board are received via X-Road and FTP-server.

Data from the Centre of Registers and Information Systems are received via X-Road.

18.4. Data validation

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with the data of previous periods, other surveys and administrative data sources. Before data dissemination, internal coherence of the data is checked.

18.5. Data compilation

The business register for statistical purposes is updated regularly on the basis of legal registers and other data sources – Estonian Central Bank (Eesti Pank), statistical questionnaires, information received from companies by letter or telephone, public databases, the media.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable

19. Comments

Not available

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