The National Administrative Department of Statistics (), commonly referred to as DANE, is the
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
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Administrative Department responsible for the planning, compilation, analysis and dissemination of the official
statistics
Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...
of Colombia.
DANE is responsible for conducting the National Population and Housing
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
every ten years, among several other studies.
DANE offers more than 100 statistical operations on industrial, economic, agricultural, population and quality of life aspects aimed at supporting decision-making in the country.
Since 2022, the director is Beatriz Piedad Urdinola Contreras.
Previous censuses
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2018 Colombian census
See also
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Administrative Department of Security
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National Planning Department
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Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi
References
External links
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...
Demographics of Colombia
National Administrative Department of Statistics
Government agencies established in 1953
1953 establishments in Colombia
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