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Table 1. Person, household and dwelling characteristics in registers in
2013
Assessment of coverage in Census characteristics
registers
A – complete Sex, age, country of birth, nationality
B – partial Labour status, occupational status

Useful area/number of rooms, building type
of dwelling
C – limited Permanent residence, residence abroad and
year of arrival, previous residence,
relationships between household members.

Housing arrangements, type of dwelling,
basis for use of dwelling, ownership status,
number of persons living in the dwelling,
technical characteristics of the dwelling
(water supply system, toilet, washing
facilities, heating type, time of construction).
D – none Occupation, place of work
Source: REGREL methodological report in 2013

There are references in the 2013 methodological report to the need to start
work to improve data quality in the registers; however, the question remained
how the collected data should be improved in the registers. Registers are
document-based in Estonia, which sets a limit on their clean-up, as there is a
need for a legal basis. Legislation for this is complicated, as in fact, the situation
cannot be solved by neither the register keeper nor Statistics Estonia – there
are no good solutions at this point in time.
By 2014 of the second period, a new level had been reached in terms of the
interoperability of state information systems:
1) almost all census characteristics, excl. occupation and place of work, were
covered by registers;
2) there was a system of personal identification codes, on the basis of which
the majority of personal data registers had identifiers;
3) there were codes for address objects and commercial register codes in use.
4) Negotiations were started for amendments to the legislation to commence
collecting data into the employment register (place of work and occupation)
and the population register (residential address).

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