Estonia: information sector employment 2021

In 2021, the number of employees in the information sector in Estonia increased by 0.9 thousand employees (+22.5 percent) since 2019. In total, the number of employees amounted to 4.93 thousand employees in 2021. This increase was preceded by a declining number of employees in this industry.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the information sector in Estonia from 2010 to 2021 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of employees in thousands
2021	4.93
2019	4
2018b	4.34
2017	4.35
2015	4.79
2014	4.58
2013	5.07
2012	4.72
2011	4.69
2010	4.72

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Release date

March 2024

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Estonia

Survey time period

2010 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to aggregate INF of CE Rev 2.

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