The following is a list of national and international statistical services.
Central national statistical services
Nearly every country in the world has set a central public sector unit entirely devoted to the production, harmonisation and dissemination of
official statistics that the public sector and the national community need to run, monitor and evaluate their operations and policies. This central statistical organisation does not produce every official statistic as other public sector organisations, like the national
central bank
A central bank, reserve bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary union,
and oversees their commercial banking system. In contrast to a commercial bank, a central b ...
or
ministries in charge of agriculture, education or health, may be charged with producing and disseminating sector policy oriented statistical data. The statistical
legislation
Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body. Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to ...
and regulation generally attribute responsibilities and authorities according to statistical domains or functions in addition to those of the central unit.
The table below lists these central statistical organisations by country. The
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...
has no central producing unit, but several units (also listed below) have been given responsibility over various federal statistics domains (see also:
Federal Statistical System of the United States
The Federal Statistical System of the United States is the decentralized network of federal agencies which produce data and official statistics about the people, economy, natural resources, and infrastructure of the United States.
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Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
(Institutions from countries marked with * are members of
Eurostat's European Statistical System (ESS).)
Oceania
Autonomous statistical services at sub-national level
Some countries are politically organised as federations of states or of autonomous regions; also a specific territory might have been given a partial autonomy. Several of these sub-national regional units have set their own quasi-independent statistical department. A list is presented in
Sub-national autonomous statistical services
International statistical services
United Nations organisations
Intergovernmental Development and Central Banks
Regional intergovernmental organisations
Other organisations
See also
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Official statistics
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Statistics
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List of statistical topics
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*2SLS (two-stage least squares) redirects to instrumental variable
*3SLS – see three-stage least squares
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List of academic statistical associations
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. This is a list of academ ...
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National agencies responsible for GDP measurement
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
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External links
World Bank directory of national statistic sitesOECD Worldwide statistical sourcesUN Statistics Division Information on National Statistical Systems
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