Statistical Insights involve the application of statistical methods and techniques to analyse data generated from pilot projects. These still represent official statistical data but which are undergoing testing and therefore are not yet in their finalised form. Users should note that these statistics may carry a higher level of uncertainty and should be treated with caution.
Commercial Property Price Index: 2024
This publication presents provisional statistics on commercial property price indices by the primary use of the dwelling, developed in line with the methodological principles and recommendations issued by the ESRB and Eurostat.
Date: 28/04/2026
Theme: Il-Proprjetà
Il-Qasam Ekonomiku tal-Jottijiet Kbar fʼMalta
L-għan taʼ dan it-tagħrif huwa l-kejl tal-kontribut ekonomiku dirett tal-qasam tal-jottijiet kbar fʼMalta.
Date: 17/03/2026
Non-Residential Smart Meter Statistics
This detailed statistical insight focuses on the electricity consumed by all non-residential accounts and links smart meter microdata to spatial information through means of coordinate data. Moreover, such data is also linked to business characteristics, namely employment size class and NACE.
Date: 23/01/2026
Theme: L-Enerġija
Card payment habits in Malta
Various studies suggest that electronic payments are increasing in popularity driven largely by the growth of Fintech. Access to card payment data offers an innovative perception of economic activity with minimal time lag in comparison to traditional methods.
Date: 14/11/2025
EU-SILC: Technical note on break-in-time-series
Following the media coverage of data published from the EU-SILC survey in news release 182/2025 “EU-SILC 2024: Main dwellings”, the NSO wishes to provide further clarification on methodological updates implemented in the survey which have resulted in some of the secondary indicators from the EU-SILC 2023 and EU-SILC 2024 to no longer be fully comparable with previous years.
Date: 20/10/2025
Statistical papers refer to research papers or articles that focus on statistical methods, analyses, and findings. These papers are typically written by our statisticians, who investigate a research problem and employ different statistical methods to analyse data and draw conclusions.
Implementing the Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) framework in Malta
A Tourism Satellite Account is a standard statistical framework designed to quantify the total direct economic contribution of tourism to an economy by isolating tourism-related spending which is not normally included in traditional gross-domestic product (GDP) calculation from various industries.
Date: 18/06/2026
Theme: Uncategorized @mt
Public Perceptions of Safety: 2025
In September 2025, the National Statistics Office conducted a survey of adults aged 18+ to gather insights on various topics. The findings are being released as a series of short articles, with the first focusing on how safe people feel in their neighbourhoods and at home after dark.
Date: 24/03/2026
Theme: Il-Kriminalità
Valuation of land underlying dwellings in Malta – A residual approach
Accurately valuing land beneath dwellings is essential for effective economic analysis and policy development. This paper estimates the value of land underlying residential properties from 1995 to 2024 using the residual method. It uses data from national censuses and dwelling prices to assess land’s economic significance and analyse long-term trends in residential land values.
Date: 01/09/2025
Theme: Il-Kontijiet Nazzjonali
Wellbeing and socio-economic determinants in the self-perception of general health status in the Maltese Islands
This paper describes an exploratory analysis of various socio-economic and wellbeing variables and their relationship with the reported health status collected annually in the Survey of Income and Living Conditions, EU-SILC, in Malta from 2018 to 2022.
Date: 18/11/2024
Contrasting population dynamics
This article provides a brief analysis of the differences in the age and sex structure of the Maltese and foreign population in 2023.
Date: 16/09/2024
Theme: Il-Popolazzjoni
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