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Statistical Office in Opole belongs to public statistic services subordinated to the Central Statistical Office and acting on the basis of:
- law dated 29th June 1995 on public statistics (Journal of Laws in 2023, item. 773),
- instruction No. 4 of the President of the CSO dated 21st March 2012 on certified statute of SO in Opole (CSO Office Journal dated March 27, 2012, item 14 with later amendments),
- law dated 21st November 2008 on civil service (Journal of Laws in 2022, item 1691 with later amendments),
- Organisation Statute of Statistical Office in Opole.
According to above documents main duties of the Statistical Office in Opole include:
- collecting, storing, processing and analysing statistical data;
- conducting work resulting from statistical research programme of public statistics and methodological works plan;
- conducting and implementing censuses as well as other research with a wide range of observation in Opolskie Voivodship's area;
- participation in carrying out works on methodology of statistical research concerning Opolskie Voivodship;
- recognition of demand for statistical information and analyses in territorial cross-section in Opolskie Voivodship, as well as designing methods and forms of fulfilling them;
- sharing and disseminating the resulting statistical information on the area of Opolskie Voivodship, including comparisons with other regions;
- conducting research and regional analyses important from the point of point of view of the voivodship's specific nature, including in cooperation with scientific and research units;
- providing information supprot to local government units as well as advisory and expert units of the local government by preparing analyses regarding Opolskie Voivodship;
- conducting work in the field of popularisation and promotion of statistics and dissemination of statistical knowledge, including carrying out statistical education in Opolskie Voivodship;
- co-operation in carrying out works for the needs of preparing regional statistics;
- presenting statistical information on the area of Opolskie Voivodship to government administration bodies, bodies of local government units and other recipients;
- conducting research, analytical and publishing activities in the cross-border and Euroregional statistics in Opolskie Voivodship in cooperation with the Centre for Cross-Border Areas and Eureregional Statistics of Statistical Office in Rzeszów;
- maintaining the National Official Business Register (REGON) in the field of legal persons, organisational units without legal personality and natural persons conducting economic activity, as well as sharing data from the REGON register;
- maintaining and providing data from the National Official Register of the Territorial Division of the Country TERYT in Opolskie Voivodship's area, in part covering system of statistical regions and census districts as well as system of address identification for streets, real estates, buildings and dwellings (including a street catalogue);
- maintaining spatial address databases in Opolskie Voivodship for the purposes of creating spatial reports in the specialised GIS software, based on the data from the national register of the territorial division of the country, TERYT, and other statistical registers;
- co-operation with government administration and local government bodies in the voivodship, maintaining official registers and information systems of public administration in the scope of providing source information for updating the registers and research reports;
- conducting research on the area of Opolskie Voivodship, jointly with government or local government bodies, included, at their request, in the programme of statistical research of public statistics;
- administering the IT infrastructure of public statistics services located in Opolskie Voivodship.
The Statistical Office in Opole specialises in the implemenation of natiowide tasks performed for the benefit of public statistics as a whole in following areas: prices of consumer and non-consumer goods; national average prices of the food producers; prices of road and bridge works and objects, indices of export and import prices, prices of services producers, retail prices of agricultural production means and (market) prices in agriculture and it cooperates in this regard with relevant department of Central Statistical Office during every stage of conducting work. In terms of specialisation the Office is responsible for implementation of tasks in the field of:
- carrying out work on updating frames for statistical research and creating files;
- preparing templates of forms and questionnaires (including electronic ones) along with explanations;
- collection, control and acceptation of voivodship's and nationwide collections;
- assessing data quality and checking the completeness of collections, analyses of the causes of missing responses and taking corrective actions;
- preparing assumptions for IT systems related to collecting, processing and analysing data and participating in testing them;
- improving existing research tools and introducting new techniques in order to reduce the burden on respondents, speeding up the development of results and delivering them to recipients and reducing research costs;
- creating and maintaining a statistical database.