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Public Services Statistics Department

Tasks of the Public Services Statistics Department

 

1. Areas of expertise of the Public Services Statistics Department:
1.1. education,
1.2. culture,
1.3. sports,
1.4. time use,
1.5. health,
1.6. social services,
1.7. non-profit institutions,
1.8. justice.
2. Tasks of the Public Services Statistics Department according to the statistical data production process:
2.1. professional planning and preparing data surveys on lifelong learning, time use, mass media (television and radio broadcasting, book and newspaper publishing), film production and cinemas, carrying out related data collection and data preparation (editing, validation, coding) activities, processing, quality control, correcting data and organising the data collected into a database, performance of national and international data transmissions and providing access to data;
2.2. receiving statistical data on education, culture and sport from the data collections of other bodies of the Official Statistical Service and from administrative and other secondary data sources, processing, quality control, improvement and database management of the received data, completing domestic and international data transfers and providing access to the data;
2.3. planning, preparing statistical data surveys in the health, social, non-profit and judicial sectors, carrying out related data collection and data preparation (editing, validation, coding) activities, processing, quality control, correcting data and organising the data collected into a database, performance of national and international data transmissions and providing access to data;
2.4. receiving statistical data on health, social services and justice from the data collections of other bodies of the Official Statistical Service and from administrative and other secondary data sources, processing, quality control, improvement and database management of the received data, completing domestic and international data transfers and providing access to the data;
2.5. compiling the statistical system of Social Protection;
2.6. compiling the statistical system of the National Health Accounts;
2.7. documenting and developing the methodology of the specialised areas within the remit of the department;
2.8. producing data compilations, first releases and analyses from the subject matter statistics within the remit of the department;
2.9. contributing to the development of HCSO publications relating to multiple statistical areas;
2.10. managing the classification systems of the domain the specialised areas within the remit of the department;
2.11. updating the content of the registers belonging to the department, planning and implementing the data surveys and transfers necessary for the maintenance of the registers;
2.12. national and international contacts in the special fields under the responsibility of the department.