Price Statistics Centre is a specialist centre operating within organisational structure of the Statistical Office in Opole, established the President of the Central Statistical Office. The aim of the Centre is to carry out nationwide research for public statistics as a whole in the following areas:

• prices of well consumer as well as non-consumer goods and services,
• prices of food producers,
• prices of road as well bridge works and objects,
• prices in foreign trade,
• prices of service producers,
• prices in agriculture.

     The Price Statistics Centre includes the Data Engineering Department.

Tasks of the Price Statistics Centre

1. Conducting, as an author's unit, nationwide works on the organisation, methodology, programming, acquistion and editing of data in the field of export and import price research.
2. Improving research methodology and taking actions to improve the data acquistion process.
3. Providing recipients with adequate, reliable and high-quality output data and statystyical analyses.
4. Participation in development, in consulation with the relevant department of the Central Statistical Office, drafts of the annual statistical research programme for public statistics, multi-annual progams for public statistics, annual plans for statistical studies, methodological work plans and publishing plan proposals.

Tasks of the Data Engineering Department

1. Implementation of modern methods and tools for processing and analysing structured and unstructured data sources.
2. Improving existing and creating new technological solutions for obtaining and processing data from non-statistical sources.
3. Processing statistical data sets obtained from various sources.
4. Designing and programming IT systems for studies in the field of the Office's specialisation.
5. Conducting development works, in cooperation with units of the public statistics, of which mainly in the field of the Office's specialisation, regarding the use of new technologies and data sources to improve statistical data production processes (especially webscraping).
6. Carrying out research and development work in the field of introducting new technologies and data sources, including solutions and tools for automating data transformation and integration.