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Children

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What is life like for children living in Estonia? How child-friendly is the Estonian society? Children’s well-being is an important discussion topic and the focus of many organisations, political forces and the media. For a better overview on the topic, it is necessary to collect data and study the situation and opportunities of children from various perspectives. Statistics Estonia focuses on many areas of children’s lives, such as the environment they grow up in, their living conditions, poverty and social exclusion, the coping of households with children and population trends. The

Preprimary education

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The first time children spend significant time away from their parents is usually in preschool. Children also gain independence and start their educational journey there. Preprimary education promotes children’s general skills and overall development. Statistics on preprimary education provide information, such as: how many children attend preschool institutions in Estonia; how many preschool institutions there are in Estonia. For the society to function well, all parents should have the possibility to send their children to preschool. In order to ensure the adequate number of places in

Statistics Estonia released a publication on children’s well-being

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Children’s Subjective Well-Being in Local and International Perspectives, a publication of Statistics Estonia, was presented at the international child well-being conference in Tartu. The aim of the publication is to show the complexity of understanding children’s well-being.

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Area of the dwelling Branch of economic activity Comfort characteristics Command of foreign languages Command of local language form, dialect or subdialect Country of citizenship Dwelling Education acquired in general education school (upper secondary school, basic school, etc) Ethnicity Household Household plot Labour status Legal marital status Level of higher education Level of vocational, occupational or professional education Location of main place of work Long-term illness or health problem Main source of subsistence Mother tongue Number of children given birth to Number of rooms in the

Statistics on electoral districts

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How many people in my electoral district are affected by the most common election promises? How many old-age pensioners, kindergarten-aged children or public transport users are in my electoral district compared to the rest of Estonia?

Births

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Population is renewed by births. Birth rate is a socially important issue, but having children always comes down to a very personal decision, which must be respected. In Estonia, the birth rate has been significantly lower than the replacement level throughout the period of re-independence. For natural replacement of the population in Estonia, there should be more than two children in a family. However, from the third child onward, the financial stress of families is greater than with the first two children, which means that some children may not be born. In Estonia, significant measures have

Population projection

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What will happen to the population in a few decades' time if the current economic and political developments and trends in birth rates, mortality and migration predicted by current knowledge continue? Population projections show how the composition of the population changes if certain behaviours persist. When preparing population projections, current trends are extended to the future. However, many variables need to be taken into account, such as the number of children and the age of mothers, mortality in different age groups, the age distribution of the migrating population and what changes