Hungarian Central Statistical Office

Functions

• To devise and conduct surveys
• To demand collection of statistical data for the central state statistical system
• To process and analyse information from the collection of statistical data based on compulsory and voluntary data supply
• To supply data and analysis for state organizations
• To satisfy requests from non-governmental organisations, parties, local government, academic researchers and the general public
• To prepare and make the census and to process and publish the data from it.

  Regulation

• Organization of National Statistics Act No. XXV of 1874
• Hungarian Royal Central Statistical Office Act No XXXV of 1897
• Official Statistical Service Act No XIX of 1929
• State Statistics Act No VI. of 1952
• Statistics Act No. V. of 1973
• Statistics Act No. XLVI of 1993

Organization structure

• Departments reporting directly to the president
• *Internal Audit Section
• *Administration and International
• Departments reporting to the Deputy President responsible for statistical issues
• *Price Statistics
• *Living Standards and Labour Statistics
• *Foreign Trade Statistics
• *Agriculture and Environment Statistics
• *National Accounts
• *Population Statistics
• *Statistical Research and Methodology Department
• *Sector Accounts
• *Services Statistics
• *Social Services Statistics
• *Business Statistics
• Departments reporting to the Deputy President responsible for economic affairs
• *Financial Management
• *Technical and System Monitoring
• *Information Technology
• *Dissemination
• *Planning
• *Directorates
• **Debrecen
• **Győr
• **Miskolc
• **Pécs
• **Szeged
• **Veszprém