Central Statistics Office (Ireland)
Template:Short description Template:Infobox government agency The Central Statistics Office (CSO; Template:Langx) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in the Republic of Ireland (it does not operate in Northern Ireland), in particular the census which is held every five years. The office is answerable to the Taoiseach and has its main offices in Cork. The Director General of the CSO is Jennifer Banim.
HistoryEdit
The CSO was established on a statutory basis in 1994 to reduce the number of separate offices responsible for collecting statistics for the state.<ref>Template:Cite ISB; Template:Cite ISB</ref>
The CSO had existed, as an independent {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} office within the Department of the Taoiseach, from June 1949, and its work greatly increased in the following decades, particularly from 1973 with the Republic of Ireland joining the European Economic Community (EEC). Previous to the 1949 reforms, statistics were collected by the Statistics Branch of the Department of Industry and Commerce on the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The Statistics Branch amalgamated a number of statistics gathering organisations that had existed in Ireland since 1841, when the first comprehensive census was undertaken by the Irish Constabulary (later renamed as the Royal Irish Constabulary).
On 15 September 2020, on the advice of the Central Statistics Office, the Irish Government postponed the quinquennial population census, originally scheduled for 18 April 2021, until 3 April 2022 because of health and logistical obstacles caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Head of the OfficeEdit
The current Director-General of the Central Statistics Office is Jennifer Banim.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Household Finance and Consumption SurveyEdit
In 2013, the first ever Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) was conducted in the Republic of Ireland by the CSO on behalf of the Central Bank of Ireland as part of the European Central Bank (ECB) HFCS scheme/network.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
See alsoEdit
- NUTS statistical regions of Ireland
- Leprechaun economics
- Irish modified GNI (or GNI star)
- Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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- Population of each Province, County and City, 2002
- National Statistics Board, Ireland
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