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Statistics Estonia met with EKOMAR respondents

Kuupäev 06.07.2016
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Today, on 6 July a meeting was held between Statistics Estonia and respondents where the main topics were the importance of data collected for producing official statistics, steps taken to reduce the administrative burden of enterprises, and penalty payments.

Statistics Estonia meets the representatives of registers in preparation for the register-based census

Kuupäev 31.03.2014
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Today, on 31 March, Statistics Estonia holds a meeting with the representatives of chief and authorised processors of registers and databases. The participants will discuss how well the registers are prepared for the register-based population and housing census in 2020/2021.

Guidelines for using confidential data

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As of October 2023, Statistics Estonia deploys a more powerful RDP* research work environment. This allows researchers to work with all datasets over VPN, including those datasets that were previously only available on a secure workstation at Statistics Estonia.

The guide below sets out everything you need to know to log into the RDP environment, as well as all the rules and requirements for using the environment. The specifics of using Windows and macOS are highlighted separately where relevant.

For questions, suggestions, and problems, please contact us at stat [at] stat.ee (stat[at]stat[dot]ee). We will reply as soon

Marriages and divorces

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Estonian people value family. Marriage is traditionally associated with living together and having and raising children. In addition to traditional registered marriages, there are nowadays more and more forms of family, such as cohabitation, single-parent family and blended family. The statistics on marriages and divorces provide information, such as: how many people get married in Estonia; how many men and women remarry; how many couples divorce; how old are women and men when they get married for the first time. Families where the parents are married tend to last longer and have more

6. Clean Water and Sanitation

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The focus of the global goal “Clean Water and Sanitation” is the need to ensure that people have clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene conditions. Lack of quality and adequate water supply and sanitation affects reaching other global goals such as healthcare, promoting education and reducing poverty. The 2030 Agenda sets the target to improve water and sanitation systems to ensure access to quality drinking water and adequate wastewater treatment. Mainly, indirect measures must be taken, for example, improving water resources management, preventing pollution of water bodies with waste

4. Quality Education

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The focus of the global goal “Quality Education” is accessibility of quality education and opportunities to participate in lifelong learning. Going to school, levels of education, teachers’ education, educational institutions’ compliance with requirements (incl. sanitary) and differences in study results are observed together. The 2030 Agenda sets the target to ensure free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education for all. Before school, small children require early childhood development so that they would be ready to enter primary education. The number of youths and adults with

8. Decent Work and Economic Growth

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The focus of the global goal “Decent Work and Economic Growth” is to ensure sustainable and environmentally friendly economic growth that would not involve excessive and unsustainable use of resources. Sustainable economic growth helps people escape poverty and find employment. The 2030 Agenda sets a target to achieve higher economic productivity, using diversification, technological upgrades and innovation, and focusing among else on sectors that have high value added and are labour-intensive. It is also expected that governments support the creation of decent jobs, entrepreneurship

Affordable and Clean Energy

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The focus of the goal “Affordable and Clean Energy” is access to reliable, sustainable and affordable energy. Further efforts must be made for the availability of electricity or other energy sources used for preparing food. Energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy must be increased. The 2030 Agenda sets the target to increase the share of renewable energy in energy production, double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency, i.e. reduce energy intensity per unit of GDP. Specifically, it is important to contribute to the development of better financial instruments, to define

The Estonian economy contracted by 1.3% last year

Kuupäev 01.03.2023
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According to the preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, in the fourth quarter of 2022, the gross domestic product (GDP), which shows how the Estonian economy is doing, declined by 4.1% compared with the same period of 2021. The GDP at current prices was 10 billion euros.