Statistics Sweden is the Swedish government agency

Government agencies in Sweden

The Government agencies in Sweden are state controlled organizations who act independently to carry out the policies of the Swedish Government. The Government Ministries are relatively small and merely policy-making organizations, allowed to control agencies by policy decisions but not by direct...

 responsible for producing official statistics

Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

 regarding Sweden. National statistics in Sweden date back to 1686 when the parishes of the Church of Sweden

Church of Sweden

The Church of Sweden is the largest Christian church in Sweden. The church professes the Lutheran faith and is a member of the Porvoo Communion. With 6,589,769 baptized members, it is the largest Lutheran church in the world, although combined, there are more Lutherans in the member churches of...

 were ordered to start keeping records on the population. SCB's predecessor, the Office of Tables (), was set up in 1749, and the current name was adopted in 1858.

, the agency had approximately 1,400 employees.