The Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS) ( Slovene: ''Statistični urad Republike Slovenije'', ''SURS'') is an independent

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...

n state institution in charge of official

statistical survey Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey da ...

ing. It reports directly to the

prime minister of Slovenia The prime minister of Slovenia, officially the president of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia ( sl, Predsednik Vlade Republike Slovenije), is the head of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. There have been nine officeholders sinc ...

. One of the office's activities is a nationwide

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses inc ...

every 10 years, the last one being conducted in 2011. The office is located at Litostrojska cesta 54 (54 Litostroj Street) in

Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...

. As of August 2019, its director is Bojan Nastav.

Directors

* Alojz Dular (1944–1945) * Silva Exel Škerlak (1945–1948) * Boris Debevec (1948–1951) * Vojko Konvalinka (1951–1954) * Rajko Kiauta (1954–1967) * Franta Komel (1967–1981) * Tomaž Banovec (1981–2003) * Irena Križman (2003–2013) * Genovefa Ružić (2013–2019) * Bojan Nastav (2019–)

References

External links

Official website

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