Statistik Austria

Statistics Austria is the name under which the Statistics Austria (STAT), the Statistical Office of the Republic of Austria, appears in public. Statistics Austria went by the Austrian Federal Statistics Act of 2000 out of the Austrian Central Statistical Office and was spun off from the federal on 1 January 2000.

History

The Austrian statistics is rooted in the time of the administrative reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II (for example, first census 1754). 1829 was a first -governmental agency, the Statistical Bureau, arranged to collect statistical information, which was performed after extensions in 1863 in a collegial body for the Austrian half of the Empire of the monarchy (kk Central Statistical Commission). The decades before the First World War were a period of intense professional and technical developments, expanded data collection and publication activities, enhanced cooperation with universities and technical sciences and incipient international cooperation.

Successor institution in the First Republic was the Federal Statistical Office (1921-1938), in the Second Republic, the Austrian Central Statistical Office (1945-1999), and the reconstruction of the Federal Statistics, the densification of the international cooperation in the framework of the United Nations and the OECD finally had to make Austria's integration in the statistical system of the European Communities ( EU in 1995 ).

Tasks and organization

Statistics Austria is an independent, non-profit federal institution under public law. It handles the tasks of official statistics on the federal level: the collection, compilation, analysis and publication of official statistics for Austria. Statistics Austria also makes Austria 's contribution to Community statistics in the statistical system of the European Union and the Representation of Austria in the statistical bodies of the United Nations and its subsidiary organizations (eg WHO, UNESCO, FAO) and the OECD, the Council of Europe and Eurostat, and international scientific societies.

Structure of the institution

Statistics Austria (over 800 employees) is divided into the General with two Directors-General:

• Trade Statistical General: Konrad Pesendorfer
• Commercial General Director: Gabriela Petrovic

To four directorates ( population, businesses, Spatial Economics, Economics ), two independent departments (registers, classifications and methodology; EDV), and six staff positions (quality management, international relations, media and information policy analysis, risk management and internal audit).

Economic Council ( 2009: 12 members) and Statistical Council (2009: 15 members ) support the DG in the economic and technical direction of the Federal Agency. They consist of representatives from the federal, statutory interest groups, the state and local statistics and from experts on economic and technical issues.

For technical cooperation next there are a number of advisory boards.

Legal bases

Each federal statistics requires a legal basis. General legal basis of the Austrian Federal Statistics, the Federal Statistics Act 2000, specific legal bases are various other federal laws, regulations and decrees. With the progressive integration of the statistical system of the European Union, those Member States increasingly the EU statistical law standards for their preparation and implementation of the Statistical Office of the European Communities ( Eurostat) in Luxembourg is responsible.

Availability of statistical information

Task of Statistics Austria is the provision of objective, in an independent position according to scientific methods derived statistical information for policy, management, business, media and all citizens. According to Statistics Austria, therefore, are available to all concerned - for the most part free of charge (data sheets, specialized library, information service, press releases), partially paid ( print publications, special analyzes, use of the online database ISIS). For the individual data from statistical surveys strict privacy protection applies.

Among the best known statistical results include, for example, those of large counts ( census, Building and Housing Census, Census of - most recently in 2001 ), the current information of economic statistics, especially the monthly consumer price index, and the internationally standardized data of national accounts (for example, gross domestic product, economic growth). The professional tasks range from the detection of the population, births, deaths and migration, health and social conditions to the development of basic economic classifications to ensure international comparability.

Publications

• Gazetteer (former local lexicon, local repertories ), 1869 -present