The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HSCO) is a quango

Quango

Quango or qango is an acronym used notably in the United Kingdom, Ireland and elsewhere to label an organisation to which government has devolved power...

 responsible for collecting, processing and publishing statistics about Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

, its economy, and its inhabitants. The office provides details for parliamentary and administrative offices, local councils and academia, financial institutions, the public at large and the media.

Functions

• To devise and conduct surveys
• To demand collection of statistical data for the central state statistical system
• To process and analyse information from the collection of statistical data based on compulsory and voluntary data supply
• To supply data and analysis for state organizations
• To satisfy requests from non-governmental organisations, parties, local government, academic researchers and the general public
• To prepare and make the census
  Census
  A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
  
   and to process and publish the data from it.

Regulation

Legal reference: KSH - Rules on Statistics

• Organization of National Statistics Act No. XXV of 1874
• Hungarian Royal Central Statistical Office Act No XXXV of 1897
• Official Statistical Service Act No XIX of 1929
• State Statistics Act No VI. of 1952
• Statistics Act No. V. of 1973
• Statistics Act No. XLVI of 1993

The organisation is also covered by European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

 regulation.

Organization structure

There are around 1,050 people employed at the central office, with a further 450 at regional offices.

The head of the Office is called the President, and leads a number of organizatonal units each headed by a Deputy President and having several departments:

• Departments reporting directly to the president
  • Internal Audit Section
  • Administration and International
• Departments reporting to the Deputy President responsible for statistical issues
  • Price Statistics
  • Living Standards and Labour Statistics
  • Foreign Trade Statistics
  • Agriculture and Environment Statistics
  • National Accounts
  • Population Statistics
  • Statistical Research and Methodology Department
  • Sector Accounts
  • Services Statistics
  • Social Services Statistics
  • Business Statistics
• Departments reporting to the Deputy President responsible for economic affairs
  • Financial Management
  • Technical and System Monitoring
  • Information Technology
  • Dissemination
  • Planning
  • Directorates
    • Debrecen
      Debrecen
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    • Győr
      Gyor
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    • Miskolc
      Miskolc
      Miskolc is a city in northeastern Hungary, mainly with heavy industrial background. With a population close to 170,000 Miskolc is the fourth largest city of Hungary It is also the county capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and the regional centre of Northern Hungary.- Geography :Miskolc is located...
      
      
    • Pécs
      Pécs
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    • Szeged
      Szeged
      ' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....
      
      
    • Veszprém
      Veszprém
      Veszprém is one of the oldest urban areas in Hungary, and a city with county rights. It lies approximately north of the Lake Balaton. It is the administrative center of the county of the same name.-Location:...