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Immigration to Estonia increased last year

Kuupäev 22.05.2014
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According to Statistics Estonia, 4,098 persons immigrated to Estonia and 6,740 persons emigrated from Estonia in 2013. There were 1,459 immigrants more than in 2012.

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The main task of Statistics Estonia is to provide reliable and objective information about Estonia. In order to do that, Statistics Estonia collects data from databases, enterprises and individuals. For nearly half of the questionnaires, we use data from databases, but in order to produce statistics, we also need information that is not available there. Therefore, respondents, both enterprises and individuals, have a crucial role to play in producing reliable statistics. The data submitted to Statistics Estonia are carefully protected. We use the data only for the production of official

Immigration exceeded emigration for the second year in a row

Kuupäev 04.05.2017
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According to the revised data of Statistics Estonia, 1,315,635 persons lived in Estonia on 1 January 2017, which is 309 persons less than at the same time a year earlier. The population figure decreased by 1,339 persons due to negative natural increase, but increased by 1,030 persons as a result of positive net migration.

Statistics Estonia starts the recruitment of 2,200 enumerators

Kuupäev 03.10.2011
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According to Statistics Estonia, a job competition for the recruitment of 2,200 enumerators for the Population and Housing Census 2011, which will start at the end of this year, is declared open today, on 3 October, at 9:00 a.m.

Statistics Estonia extends the e-census by 24 hours

Kuupäev 31.01.2012
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Statistics Estonia lengthens the opportunity to participate in the e-census by 24 hours due to a big interest of the population in the e-census. People can participate online in the Population Census until 23:59 on 1 February.

Employment indicators improved at the beginning of the year

Kuupäev 15.05.2017
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According to Statistics Estonia, in the 1st quarter of 2017, the unemployment rate was 5.6%, the employment rate 66.3% and the labour force participation rate 70.2%. The labour force participation rate reached a record level in comparison with the 1st quarters of previous years.

Population stands at 1.34 million

Kuupäev 22.01.2010
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According to Statistics Estonia, by preliminary estimation the population in Estonia on 1 January 2010 was 1,340,000. Due to the decrease in the number of deaths the decline in population number slowed down last year.

Bunny Juss introduces the coming census

Kuupäev 28.12.2011
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A cartoon has been created in cooperation between the website lastekas.ee and Statistics Estonia. It features the popular cartoon character Bunny Juss and his family who tell the children about the Population and Housing Census, which begins on this Saturday, 31 December.