The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) was created in May 1970 through the merger of the

General Register Office General Register Office or General Registry Office (GRO) is the name given to the civil registry in the United Kingdom, many other Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth nations and Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The GRO is the government agency r ...

and the Government Social Survey Department. It was a forerunner and constituent, with the UK Central Statistical Office, of the

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, in which they combined in 1996 under a single director who, from 2000 was also known as the

National Statistician The National Statistician is the Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, and the Head of the UK Government Statistical Service. The office was created by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. Following the retirement of John ...

. The director of OPCS was also

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for England and Wales.

References

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See also

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