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Use of confidential data for scientific purposes

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Legal persons and organisations can use for research confidential data held by Statistics Estonia. The data can be used remotely in the research work environment. Statistics Estonia will no longer provide the service of using local workstations from 27 October 2025. Submit an application for the use of confidential data here: Apply for data A more detailed description of processing the application and data use conditions can be found in the standard “Procedure for the dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes". Processing of personal data of special categories is also subject

71 percent of the Estonian population prefer an online census

Kuupäev 18.11.2021
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Most Estonian residents intend to participate in the Population and Housing Census, which begins at the end of the year. 71% of them prefer completing the census questionnaire online, as revealed by a recent survey of Kantar Emor.

Survey reveals whether adults in Estonia are as clever as our children

Kuupäev 08.09.2022
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The international Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), which aims to collect data on people’s everyday competencies such as literacy, numeracy, information-seeking, use of computers and information technology, as well as their education and work experience, begins today. This is the second time that Estonia has participated in the survey.

Turnover and investments of the business sector increased

Kuupäev 27.02.2020
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According to the preliminary data of Statistics Estonia, in 2019, turnover increased in most economic activities. Trade, manufacturing and information and communication enterprises contributed the most to the turnover of the business sector. The growth in the sector’s turnover was negatively affected mainly by energy and mining.

Submit data to the employment register

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Pursuant to a government regulation, employers must enter in the employment register (TÖR) of the Tax and Customs Board the official title and address of the place of employment for each employee. Its purpose is to make the collection of wages and salaries and labour force data more efficient, to produce more accurate statistics on wages and the labour market and to conduct a register-based population and housing census. The occupational title and workplace address must be entered in TÖR for persons employed under an employment contract. If a person is working under a contract of the law of

Unemployment slightly increased at the end of the year

Kuupäev 14.02.2012
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According to Statistics Estonia, in the 4th quarter of 2011, the unemployed persons numbered 79,000 and the unemployment rate was 11.4%. The annual average unemployment rate was the smallest during last three years.

Around 150,000 people have responded to the e-census

Kuupäev 06.01.2022
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By today, January 6, approximately 150,000 people have submitted answers to the Population and Housing Census e-questionnaire. Women have been considerably more active in filling in the questionnaire than men. The short questionnaire can be answered until January 22.