Business register for statistical purposes
Statistical activity code: 20901
Identification, stratification and demographic data of economic units | |
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) | |
Includes data on all economic units active in Estonia, except households and embassies of foreign countries | |
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. | |
Legal unit Enterprise Local unit Local kind-of-activity unit Kind-of-activity unit Enterprise group | |
Economic units that are part of the national accounts and regional accounts system – enterprises and non-profit institutions FRAME Not applicable | |
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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 |
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. | |
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. |
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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. | |
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”. | |
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 | |
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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. | |
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. |
Ministry of Finance State and local government institutions Non-profit organisations Enterprises Research and educational institutions Eesti Pank (central bank of Estonia) | |
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. | |
Maintenance and development of the business register for statistical purposes are in compliance with the requirements established in Regulation (EC) No 177/2008. |
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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
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