Statistics Austria, known locally as Statistik Austria, is the official name of

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

's Federal Statistical Office (), the country's agency for collecting and publishing

official statistics Official statistics are statistics published by Government, government agencies or other Statutory corporation, public bodies such as International organization, international organizations as a Public good (economics), public good. They provide q ...

related to Austria. In 2000 a bill (''federal law for statistics'') transformed the ''Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt'' (Austrian Statistical Central Office) into Statistik Austria. Statistik Austria is an independent, not-profit-seeking

institution An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity. Laws, rules, social conventions and ...

with public rights, which has the duty to fulfill services of the Bundesstatistik (Federal Statistics); the GDI (

Gender-related Development Index The Gender Development Index (GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced in 1995 in the Human Development Report written by the United Nations Development Progra ...

), for example, is calculated by Statistik Austria. The current directors general are Gabriela Petrovic, who handles administrative matters, and Tobias Thomas. Although Statistik Austria was validated as Austria's institution for statistics research, the organization itself was already founded in 1829 with the name 'Statistical Bureau'. In 1840 it was renamed the Direktion der Administrativen Statistik, in 1863 again the K&K Statistische Zentralkommission; in the

First Austrian Republic The First Austrian Republic (), officially the Republic of Austria, was created after the signing of the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 10 September 1919—the settlement after the end of World War I which ended the Habsburg rump state of ...

() from 1921 to 1938 (German Invasion) it was named Bundesamt für Statistik, and after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, from 1945 to 1999 it bore the name Österreichisches Statistisches Zentralamt.

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External links

Official website
{{Authority control Government of Austria