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Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board Special Data Dissemination Standard (AS PROVIDED TO THE IMF BY THE RESPECTIVE COUNTRY)   Estonia Price index: Consumer prices Last Posted: May-14-2008 Last Certified: Jan-7-2009 Last Updated: Jul-23-2003 Contact Person(s)          Printer Friendly Page   Mrs. Viktoria Trasanov, Price Statistics Division, Statistical Office of Estonia (SOE), Endla Street 15, Tallinn, Estonia 15174   Phone : 372 6259240   Fax : 372 6259370   Email : viktoria.trasanov@stat.ee  Dissemination Formats Summary Methodology Access National Summary Data Page Cross-country comparisons: access the DSBB metadata query facility

The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
Coverage characteristics	5.1.1 Statistical presentation From 2001, the consumer price index (CPI) data are disseminated on the basis of an annually chain linked Laspeyres index (1997=100). The index covers the whole country and all economic groups except people living in institutions. The index is compiled using a sample of more than 500 separate goods and services for which price movements are measured in about 1,000 outlets in 10 areas once a month. The CPI is calculated on the basis of approximately 15,000 separate price quotations. The prices include any taxes. The observation period is the week including the 15th of the month. The weights are derived from the quarterly estimates of the Estonian Family Expenditure Survey; national accounts estimates of private final consumption and administrative information. From 2001, the weights are updated each year. In recent years the index has been re-based and the weights revised in the third quarter of 1990, in June of 1992, in 1993 and 1997. The index is not seasonally adjusted.
Periodicity	4.1.1 Periodicity Monthly
Timeliness	4.1.2 Timeliness The 5th working day of the month following the end of the reference month.
Access by the Public
Advance dissemination of release calendar	5.1.3 Advance release calendar A calendar of precise release dates for the entire year is published at the beginning of the calendar year in a separate news release. In order to meet the quarter-ahead requirement of the SDDS for the first quarter of the year, Estonia is posting an advance release calendar on the SOE Internet website http://www.stat.ee and the DSBB http://dsbb.imf.org at the end of September of the previous year. A notice to this effect is given in a weekly calendar of publications which is published every Friday at 9:00 AM.
Simultaneous release to all interested parties	5.1.4 Simultaneous release The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties without exception at 9:00 (local time) on the day of release by issuing a news release, "Consumer Price Index", which is sent to all interested parties, including the media, at their request either by fax or by e-mail. At the same time, the news release is also published on the Internet website of the SOE (http://www.stat.ee).
Integrity
Dissemination of terms and conditions under which official statistics are produced, including those relating to the confidentiality of individually identifiable information	0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics Statistical Office of Estonia All statistical information are collected and published by the SOE are governed by the Official Statistics Act of 1997 which makes the dissemination of official statistics an obligation of the SOE. 0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data Statistical Office of Estonia Data are deemed to be disseminated as of the moment of making them available for public use at the SOE. The SOE may transmit or disseminate collected data only in a form which precludes the possibility of direct or indirect identification of the respondents. 1.1.1 Impartiality of statistics Statistical Office of Estonia According to the Act, the SOE is independent in its choice of statistical methods as long as they are in compliance with national and international standards, classifications and statistical methods. 1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination Statistical Office of Estonia The Act is published in Riigi Teataja (Official Journal of the State) No 51, 1997, Art 822, and is also available on the Internet home page of the SOE (http://www.stat.ee) both in Estonian and in English, and on the following State Chancellery Internet websites in Estonian ftp://ftp.rk.ee/pub/RTI and ftp://ftp.rk.ee/pub/RTL.
Identification of internal government access to data before release	1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release Statistical Office of Estonia No officials outside the SOE have access to the data before their release to the public.
Identification of ministerial commentary on the occasion of statistical releases	1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products Statistical Office of Estonia No ministerial commentary accompanies the release of the data.
Provision of information about revision and advance notice of major changes in methodology	4.3.1 Revision schedule The data are final when first released and are not revised. 1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques. The data are final when first released and are not revised. The main methodological changes are announced in advance and explained when the data based on the new methodology are first published in the Monthly Bulletin of Estonian Statistics.
Quality
Dissemination of documentation on methodology and sources used in preparing statistics	5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques A short description of the methodology and sources used to compile the CPI is published in the "Statistical Yearbook of Estonia". (See also summary methodology)
Dissemination of component detail, reconciliations with related data, and statistical frameworks that support statistical cross-checks and provide assurance of reasonableness	4.2.1 Internal consistency Indices for the 12 main groups are published in the monthly "Estonian Statistics" no later than one month after the news release. The monthly "Main Social and Economic Indicators of Estonia" publishes index changes (monthly, quarterly, and annually) compared with the previous period, and with the same period in the previous year, since 1996. The "Statistical Yearbook of Estonia" and the December issue of the monthly "Estonian Statistics" publish a summary of the monthly data for the year. 4.2.2 Temporal consistency Monthly time series data showing the CPI for the period since January 1998 are published on the SOE Internet website (http://www.stat.ee).
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