Social statistics are covering a wide range of domains (demography, employment, income and consumption, well-being and quality of life, education, health etc.) and they are taken from a variety of sources (data on persons and households collected at individual level from samples, population censuses, aggregated administrative data and data from businesses).
Sotsiaalstatistika hlmab paljusid valdkondi (demograafia, thive, sissetulek ja tarbimine, heaolu ja elukvaliteet, haridus, tervishoid jne) ning andmeid saadakse mitmesugustest allikatest (valimitest ksikisiku tasandil kogutud andmed inimeste ja leibkondade kohta, rahvaloendused, haldusalased koondandmed ning ettevtjatelt saadud andmed).