Hellenic Statistical Authority
The Greek Statistical Office, Greek Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή Ellinikí statistiki Archi, ΕΛ.ΣΤΑΤ abbreviated EL.STAT, is the national statistical authorities of Greece, based in Piraeus. It collects, collects and analyzes statistical information on the economy, society and environment.
Predecessor institution NSSG
By order of the Parliament ( Εθνική Στατιστική Υπηρεσία της Ελλάδος, Ethniki statistiki Ypiresia, ΕΣΥΕ Γενική Γραμματεία Εθνικής Στατιστικής Υπηρεσίας της Ελλάδος Γ.Γ.ΕΣΥΕ. , Or shortly Greek) was established in 1986 in the field of statistics, the General Secretariat for the statistical service of Greece bundled. It was under the Economy and Finance. In effect, this meant that governments could influence the Administration.
In November 2004, Eurostat published a comprehensive report on the Greek government revised calculation of the budget deficit and the national debt. The report showed that in the years prior to 2004 reported by the Greek authorities informed the Commission deficit figures were not calculated according to the European rules. So military expenditures were allocated to the delivery and not the year of order. The changes concerned not less than eleven different points. After recalculating the Greek deficit figures for the years 1997 to 2000 were above the Maastricht convergence criterion of 3 percent of GDP. Greece would have the European Monetary Union on the basis of the correct data may not join.
Having to Giorgos Papandreou revealed the hitherto veiled level of budget deficit after the change of government in October 2009, the new Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou had set up a commission that investigated the behavior of previous years and found that the previous government under Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis her not agreeable numbers just dropped under the table, so as not to burden the statistics it. From an analysis of Eurostat, the image of a veritable counterfeit workshop revealed. The EU Commission ruled in a report, the Office for National Statistics NSSG provides no reliable data because it was the policy at the leading-strings. While this weakness is not corrected, the reliability of the data remains questionable.
Start-up 2010
On the recommendation of Eurostat, the previous NSSG was dissolved and established the ELSTAT as a new governmental authority. Your all tasks of the National Statistical Service of Greece ( NSSG ) were transferred.
While NSSG was a Greek General Secretariat of the Economy and Finance, ELSTAT is a non-governmental agency, which is under the control of only the Greek Parliament. Of the seven members of the Executive Committee, four elected by the Board of the Hellenic Parliament, each one appointed by the Finance Minister further, the Governor of the Bank of Greece and the Association of employees of ELSTAT.
The tasks of the ELSTAT also includes carrying out of censuses.
President of ELSTAT Andreas Georgiou.