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The world is interconnected through transport. The sector ensures that bananas from Costa Rica reach our tables or that wooden furniture from Estonia finds a place in Finnish or Swedish homes. A great transport system is an important component of the modern living and business environment. Transport is divided into land transport (i.e. road and rail), water transport and air transport. Together these modes influence almost all economic activities, including the service sector. The developments and demand of these, in turn, have an impact on the health of the transportation sector. Both local
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Research and development (R&D) aim at acquiring new knowledge or using existing knowledge in a novel way. For example, it is the improvement of a product or work process. R&D ends when the main product is developed and the focus is shifted to production planning or market expansion. The main features of R&D are novelty, creativity, ambiguity, systematicity and transferability. Novelty means discovering something new, and with that goal in mind, researchers carry out studies at universities and research institutes. In business, novelty refers to new discoveries or technologies that have not
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Published statistics Statistical database Publications Complete report (in Estonian) Population de facto and Usual Resident Population, LocatIon of the Population, Population Sex and Age Structure Thematic maps: explanations p 32, maps (1–9) pp 20–28 Citizenship, Nationality, Mother Tongue and Command of Foreign Languages Thematic maps: explanations p 32, maps (1–7) pp 22–28 and on the inner sides of the front and back cover Place of Birth and Migration Thematic maps: explanations pp 35–36, maps (1–8) pp 25–32 and on the inner sides of the front and back cover Education. Religion Thematic maps
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Fewer and fewer people are commuting on foot and by public transport. Increasingly, people in Estonia prefer to travel to work by car
Date 17.03.2024
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In the last 20 years, the share of people walking to work has fallen by nearly half. There is less use of public transport, while commuting by car has risen. Tea Vassiljeva, analyst at Statistics Estonia, looked at the data and examined how the commuting habits of Estonians have changed in recent decades.
Household and family nucleus – what are these?
Date 06.09.2022
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Censuses introduce new terms that might be unfamiliar for most people, such as ‘household’, ‘family nucleus’, ‘partner’, and even such a peculiar concept as ‘non-family household’. What do all these terms mean and what is their purpose?