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205,000 tourists: number of accommodated tourists up by 6% in January

Kuupäev 11.03.2025
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Helga Laurmaa, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia, said that 95,000 foreign and 110,000 domestic tourists were accommodated in Estonia in January 2025. Year on year, the number of domestic tourists fell, as it did in several months in 2024. The number of tourists in January 2025 was 8% smaller than in January of 2020, the last pre-pandemic peak month. “Compared with the January before the crisis, there were 15,000 more domestic tourists accommodated, while the number of foreign tourists was lower by 33,000,” added Laurmaa. 30,000 tourists arrived from Finland, representing 32% of all

Dwelling and Household Questionnaire

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Questions about the dwelling Address of the dwelling What is the type of the dwelling? (apartment; private house; unit of a terraced or semi-detached house etc.) How many households permanently reside in this dwelling? Who is the owner of this dwelling? (type of ownership) When was this house built? (period) How many rooms does the dwelling have? What is the total area of the dwelling? (useful floor area) Is there a kitchen in the dwelling? Amenities of the dwelling (cold water; washing facilities (bath, shower, sauna); toilet; type of heating) Questions about the household List of household

Changes in the methodology of average wages and salaries (updated on 31.05.2023)

Kuupäev 31.05.2023
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Since the first quarter of 2023, Statistics Estonia uses the data from the employment register of the Tax and Customs Board and the income and social tax declarations to publish the average wages and salaries. People working under employment contracts, the Civil Service Act*, and service contracts are included.

Labour market

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The working-age population is divided into three: employees, i.e. employed persons; unemployed persons and economically inactive persons. The employed and the unemployed together form the economically active population, i.e. the labour force. An employed person is someone who worked during the reference period and was paid as a wage earner, entrepreneur or freelancer. An employed person is also someone who worked without direct payment in a family enterprise or own farm, or was temporarily absent from work. An unemployed person is someone who does not work anywhere, but who is actively seeking

Last year, 59,000 amateurs sang in choirs and danced in folk groups

Kuupäev 14.04.2020
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According to Statistics Estonia, in 2019, there were 82,500 amateurs of folk culture in Estonia. 59,000 of them sang in choirs or danced in folk dance groups. The most folk culture amateurs per thousand inhabitants were in Võru county and the least in Ida-Viru county.

Analysis of social gaps

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How great is inequality in Estonia and how is it divided? As part of the analysis, 11 person profiles were created to depict social gaps and inequality in Estonia. The profiles included a person’s household type, number of children in the household, as well as age, sex, education, ethnic nationality, place of residence, disability and its degree, income, employment, benefits received, distance between place of residence and place of work, health status and satisfaction with life.