Employment indicators of the immigrant population
Statistical activity code: 40720
Native and immigrant population by age group Employed native and immigrant population by age group Employment rate and employment gap of native and immigrant population by age group | |
Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK) Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO 08) International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 2011) Classification of fields of education and training 2013 Classification of Ethnicities 2011 International Standard Codes for the Representation of the Names of Countries (ISO 3166) Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages (ISO 639-2) | |
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Commuting – regular movement of people between their permanent place of residence and place of working. Economically active population / labour force – persons who wish and are able to work (total of employed and unemployed persons). Economically passive / inactive population – persons who do not wish or are not able to work. Employed – a person who during the reference period - worked and was paid as a wage earner, entrepreneur or a free-lancer; - worked without direct payment in a family enterprise or on his / her own farm; - was temporarily absent from work. Employment rate – the share of the employed in the working-age population. First generation of immigrant population – people who, along with their parents, were born abroad. Immigrant population – people whose parents were born abroad. Labour force participation rate / activity rate – the share of the labour force (total number of the employed and unemployed) in the working-age population. Native population – people whose at least one parent was born in Estonia. Over-qualified for job – qualifications and skills of the person would allow more demanding tasks than current main job. Primary sector – agriculture, hunting, forestry, fishing. Second generation of immigrant population – people who were born in Estonia but whose parents were born abroad. Secondary sector – mining, manufacturing, electricity, gas and water supply, construction. Tertiary sector – trade, services, etc. Unemployed – a person who fulfils the following three conditions: - he or she is without work (does not work anywhere at the moment and is not temporarily absent from work); - he or she is currently (in the course of two weeks) available for work if there should be work; - he or she is actively seeking work. Unemployment rate – the share of the unemployed in the labour force. Working-age / labour-age population – the part of the population that is used as the basis when examining the economic activity of the population, or in other words, the population of the age that is the object of a labour force survey (population between the ages of 15 and 74). | |
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Permanent residents of Estonia aged 15–74 FRAME A list of permanent residents of Estonia compiled based on the population and housing census (2011) and the population register | |
Estonia as a whole | |
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DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2016/1851 of 14 June 2016 adopting the programme of ad hoc modules, covering the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, for the labour force sample survey provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 OTHER LEGAL ACTS Not available OTHER AGREEMENTS Not available |
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EU LFS (European Union Labour Force Survey) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/EU_labour_force_survey_-_methodology Estonian Labour Force Survey. Methodology, Statistics Estonia (2012) http://www.stat.ee/methodology | |
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Statistics Estonia conducted the first Labour Force Survey at the beginning of 1995 (ELFS 95). In 1997–1999, the survey was conducted in the 2nd quarter. Starting from the year 2000, the Labour Force Survey is a continuous survey providing quarterly and annual results. | |
There are three data sources for measurement of unemployment in Estonia: the Estonian Labour Force Survey (ELFS) of Statistics Estonia, Eurostat’s harmonized unemployment statistics and Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund’s registered unemployment data. The methodology of data collection and publication frequency are different for these data sources. Read more from “Estonian Labour Force Survey. Methodology”, chapter 6.1. at http://www.stat.ee/methodology. The auxiliary employment indicators for national accounts according to the European System of Accounts (ESA) definitions are also calculated on the basis of ELFS. When using the data of ELFS and national accounts, differences arising from definitions and concepts should be taken into consideration. | |
The Estonian Labour Force Survey (LSF) 95 and LSF 97 survey week data are about persons who on 1 January of the survey year were 15–74 years old and data in the retrospective part have been collected from the same persons who in previous years were in other age groups. Hence, retrospective data on 1989–1996 were about those aged 15–69, to ensure comparability of data and presentation of population data by five-year age groups. From 1998 to the second quarter of 2000, also people aged 75 were interviewed in the labour force survey. Therefore, retrospective data on 1997–1999 cover 15–74 year-old people. All people over 74 years of age are regarded as inactive since 1997; for earlier years - people over 69. The expansion of the labour force survey data is based on the estimated population number as at 1 January of the survey year. The expansion factors are calculated by county, sex and 5-year age groups. Data published in the database on 1990–1999 have been amended using the adjusted population number in the years between the censuses of 1989 and 2000. Data on 2000–2013 have been corrected using the number of population recalculated on the basis of the 2011 census and registry data (see methodology for recalculating the population number at http://www.stat.ee/75541 (in Estonian) and methodology for recalculating the labour-force survey data at http://www.stat.ee/76254 (in Estonian)). |
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SURVEY DATA Not used ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Not used DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activity 40701 “Labour Force Survey” are used. | |
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Individual data are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis, and additional indicators are calculated. In order to produce statistical output, the results are weighted and estimates for the total population are calculated. All the data presented are estimates of actual parameters. The estimates that are based on less than 20 persons of the sample have not been published (in tables the symbol “..”) as not sufficiently reliable. The expansion of the data of the Employment Indicators of the Immigrant Population 2008 is based on the number of immigrant populations obtained from the Population Census 2000, adjusted by the number of immigrants in the Labor Force Survey (LFS) 2008. The expansion coefficients have been calculated according to county, sex and 5-year age groups. The expansion of LFS data is based on the estimated population on 1 January of the survey year. The expansion coefficients are calculated by county, sex and 5-year age groups. The data of LFS for 2008–2013 have been specified using the recalculated population based on the data of the Population Censuses (2000 and 2011) and registers (see the methodology of population recalculations http://www.stat.ee/75541 and the methodology of recalculations of the LFS http://www .stat.ee/76254). Due to rounding, the total sums in tables are not always equal with the total. The difference can be up to some last decimal places. | |
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