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  2. Methodology and quality
  3. ESMS metadata
  4. Tourism Survey

Tourism Survey

Statistical activity code: 40202

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Population and Social Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Sigrid Saagpakk

1.4. Contact person function

Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

sigrid.saagpakk [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

+372 625 9298

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

Number of trips by main purpose, organisation, primary destination, duration, type of accommodation; expenditure on a trip by main purpose

3.2. Classification system

Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK)

Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2

International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011)

International Standard Codes for the Representation of the Names of Countries (ISO 3166)

Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP)

3.3. Sector coverage

Travelling of Estonian residents

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Accommodation at the place of an acquaintance/relative – free private accommodation, including an overnight stay at one’s own apartment or house, also in a house acquired for personal or company timeshares, etc.

Business trip – conference, seminar or meeting; an educational and study trip; visit to an exhibition or fair; performing at a concert. Generally a business trip is paid for by the employer or organisation.

Camping grounds, recreational vehicle parks and trailer parks – short-term accommodation in campgrounds, trailer parks, hunting and fishing camps, health camps and other such recreational camps. Parking facilities for recreational vehicles. Shelters, camps and outdoor camping for short stay visitors.

Holiday trip – a relaxing trip; a trip to engage in a hobby, incl. art or sports; a cultural or entertainment trip.

Hotel and similar establishment – a hotel, motel, guest house. Accommodation establishments belonging to this category offer daily room cleaning and bed-making, and the accommodation establishment can offer a variety of additional services (catering, parking and laundry service, opportunity to use the swimming pool, gym, conference rooms, recreation rooms, etc.).

Not using a travel agent to make the bookings – a respondent or his/her company plans the trip independently, without mediation of a travel agency.

Other free accommodation – tenting free of charge, sleeping in the car, or other occasional overnight resting in an unofficial lodging.

Paid private accommodation – a room, apartment or house rented from a private person or agency.

Other short-stay accommodation – a campsite, cottage, holiday home, hostel, bed and breakfast, yacht harbour, etc. Additional services are limited.

Other trip – visiting a sanatorium or other health related trip, religious trip, pilgrimage, etc.

Own travel arrangement – accommodation is looked for after reaching the destination.

Package tour bought at the travel agency – a respondent purchases a package trip of at least two services (usually travel and accommodation) for a single price. A travel agency organises a foreign trip.

Single services bought at the travel agency – purchasing plane tickets, booking accommodation, ordering theatre tickets, renting a car, etc. through a travel agency.

Visiting a friend or relative – participating in family gatherings (a funeral, wedding, helping in work, etc.)

3.5. Statistical unit

Person

3.6. Statistical population

At least 15-year-old permanent residents of Estonia and the members of their households, excluding persons living in institutions (children’s homes, care homes, monasteries, convents, etc.)

FRAME

A list of at least 15-year-old permanent residents of Estonia based on the 2011 Population and Housing Census and the population register

3.7. Reference area

Not applicable

3.8. Time coverage

2006–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Number of trips

Average expenditure per trip – euro

5. Reference period

Quarter

Year

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism and repealing Council Directive 95/57/EC

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 253/2013 of 15 January 2013 amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adaptations following the revision of the International Standard Classification of Education ISCED in relation to the variables and breakdowns to be submitted

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)

Eesti Pank

Enterprise Estonia (EAS)

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

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).

8.2. Release calendar access

Calendar

8.3. User access

All users have been granted equal access to official statistics: dissemination dates of official statistics are announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) is provided access to official statistics before other users. Official statistics are first published in the statistical database. If there is also a news release, it is published simultaneously with data in the statistical database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar.

9. Frequency of dissemination

Quarterly

10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release

Not published

10.2. Publications

Not published

10.3. Online database

Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Tourism, accommodation and catering / Travelling of Estonian residents” in the following tables:

TU51: Overnight domestic trips of estonian residents by main purpose of trip

TU53: Overnight domestic trips of estonian residents by primary destination

TU54: Overnight domestic trips of estonian residents by duration of trip

TU551: Number of nights of estonian residents spent on domestic trips by type of accommodation

TU56: Expenditure on an overnight domestic trip of estonian residents by main purpose of trip

TU61: Outbound overnight trips of estonian residents by main purpose of trip

TU63: Outbound overnight trips of estonian residents by country of destination

TU64: Outbound overnight trips of estonian residents by duration of trip

TU651: Number of nights of estonian residents spent on outbound trips by type of accommodation

TU661: Expenditure on an outbound overnight trip of estonian residents by main purpose of trip.

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

Data serve as input for statistical activity 22107 “Travelling of Estonian residents”.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Eurostat’s model questionnaire and methodological manual:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/tourism/methodology/manuals-and-guidelines

10.7. Quality documentation

The quality report sent to Eurostat is available at https://circabc.europa.eu

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 the 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 Economic Affairs and Communications

Enterprise Estonia (EAS)

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

The data are complete and in compliance with the composition of data required by a regulation of the European Commission.

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

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

13.2. Sampling error

The error due to probability sampling is estimated for more important indicators.

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not measured

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

Quarterly data are published 90 days after the end of the reference quarter (T + 90), yearly data are published 180 days after the end of the reference year (T + 180).

14.2. Punctuality

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

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

Not applicable

15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable

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

Total population is 1,102,000 persons aged 15 and older. The sample includes 2,500 persons per quarter. The type of sampling is simple random stratified sampling by place of residence.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

The data on a person’s highest level of education graduated according to ISCED 2011 (International Standard Classification of Education) are received from Statistics Estonia’s population base (which is based on educational data of different national registers).

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Monthly

18.3. Data collection

In 2014, the data were collected by using telephone interviews (CATI). Since 2015, the data were collected by using telephone (CATI) and computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI). Starting from 2019, the data are collected by CATI, CAPI and computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI). Survey fieldwork information system (VVIS) is used to manage and monitor data collection. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires.

The data are collected with the official statistics monthly questionnaire “Tourism survey”.

18.4. Data validation

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

18.5. Data compilation

In the case of missing or unreliable data, estimate imputation based on established regulations will be used.

Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing the output are calculated or linked with registers. New variables are calculated by applying arithmetic conversion to already existing variables. This may be done repeatedly, the derived variable may, in turn, be based on previously derived new variables.

For statistical units weights are calculated, which are used to expand the data of the sample survey to the total population.

The weights are calculated on the basis of design weights derived from inclusion probabilities. The weights, which are first adjusted to compensate for the bias caused by non-response, and then calibrated to the population data, are used in calculating the final data.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures, e.g. average, median, dispersion, etc.

The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applied

19. Comments

Not available

Contacts

+372 625 9300
stat [at] stat.ee
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