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OSS – Members – Ministry of Culture and Innovation (KIM)

Name of the organisation:

In 2022, based on Article 17 (1) of the Fundamental Law, the Parliament decided to establish the Ministry of Culture and Innovation among others in Act II of 2022 on the List of Ministries of Hungary. The duties and powers of the Minister are listed in Articles 128-138 of Government Decree No. 182/2022 (24 May 2022) on the Duties and Powers of the Members of the Government.

Contact details of the institution:

Location: 1055, Budapest, 13-15. Honvéd street

E-mail address: hivatalosstatisztika@kim.gov.hu

For any questions related to the National Statistical Survey Programme, please contact the Department of the Strategic and Analysis Department at the address given above.

Official statistical activities:

The Cultural and Innovation Ministry collects data by sector as follows:

  1. In the official collection of statistics on the cultural sector, the respondents are institutions, local governments, organisations and enterprises engaged in public cultural activities; libraries; zoos (wildlife parks and cultural parks); museums; exhibition organisers; archives and performing arts organisations: theatres, dance companies, orchestras. The Institute of Culture Nonprofit Public Benefit Ltd. (NMI) The National Institute of Library Services of the National Széchényi Library and the Hungarian National Archives are involved in the collection of data on archives. Registered theatres, dance companies, orchestras, museums and zoos provide data directly to the Ministry. The data is provided electronically once a year in a single interface.
  2. The ministry also collects data on adult education through the "Adult Education Data System”.
  3. The ministry organises and implements higher education data collections in the field of higher education, including the main data on students and degree holders of higher education institutions, in accordance with the OSAP, which are carried out by the data providers using the "Higher Education Information System".
  4. In the field of vocational education and training, the Ministry collects data on the activities of vocational education and training institutions, including their technical and human resources, through the Vocational Education and Training Information System (SZIR).

The range of official statistics produced:

Official statistical data collections and data transmission for statistical purposes extend to:

  • data on cultural organisations (public collection organisations, libraries, archives, museums, zoos, wildlife parks, cultural parks, performing arts organisations),
  • data on exhibitions, concerts, other programmes and cultural events,
  • data on the activities of vocational education and training institutions,
  • main datasets on higher education institutions.

Data from the checked and processed datasets are published by the HCSO in compliance with data protection rules.

Data collections ordered in the National Statistical Surveys Programme https://www.ksh.hu/nssp

Compulsory statistical data collections and data transmissions and their domains Annex 7

Compulsory statistical data transmissions and their coverage Annex 6

Availability of the produced data and statistical publications:

Cultural data

  • Official, public data from cultural statistics collections are published on the main Kultstat website, broken down by year and by collection, in Excel table format that can be downloaded https://kultstat.oszk.hu. Public data is available to anyone without registration.
  • Library data in processed form are published by the Research and Analysis Department (KEO) of the Library Institute on https://ki.oszk.hu/dokumentumtar/konyvtari-statisztika-harmonizalt-idosoros-adatbazisa-2015-2020 website.
  • Using the time-series data, KEO staff also produced a series of thematic reports entitled Library Trend Reports, highlighting the main changes in the Hungarian library system. The 2015-2022 statistics are also available as data visualisations using Power BI.
  • Summaries and infographics of museum data produced by the Hungarian National Museum National Centre of Museological Methodology and Information (OMMIK) are available on the https://muzeumstat.hu/hu website.

Higher education data

Vocational education and training data