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Organisational Structure of the National Statistics Institute

NATIONAL STATISTICS INSTITUTE

 

The National Statistics Institute, the INE, is a collective body in public law, endowed with legal status, and with technical, administrative and financial autonomy.


Supervision of the INE is exercised by the Council of Ministers. The Council of Ministers delegates supervision of the INE to a member of the government.

 

The following attributes are entrusted to the INE: :

  • Notation, ascertaining, coordination and publicising the official statistics for which it may be charged by the government in terms of its annual plan of activities approved by the supervising minister, taking into account the general lines of national statistical activity and the respective priorities laid down by the Higher Statistics Council (CSE), under article 18, line a), of Law n.º 7/96, of 5 June, and the CSE’s opinion of that plan under article 18, line b), of the same law;
    • Undertake statistical operations that make it possible, to meet, in economically viable terms, the particular requirements of public and private users, who must specifically request these operations and cover them financially.

To pursue its attributes, the INE shall, in particular:

    • Undertake surveys, censuses and other statistical operations;
    • Create, centralise and manage the files considered necessary;
    • Have access, for exclusively statistical purposes, to individualised data concerning public and private companies, cooperatives, credit institutions, traders and other economic agents;
    • Undertake studies in pure and applied statistics, and carry out socio-economic analyses, based on the statistical data produced under the SEN;
    • Promote the training of staff for the national statistical system, together with appropriate education institutions;
    • Cooperate with foreign and international organisations.

PRESIDENCY

The Presidency is a consultative body for the strategic and day-to-day management of the INE. The Presidency consists of the President of the INE, henceforth referred to as the President, who chairs it, and by two deputy-presidents, appointed by the President of the Republic.

THE PRESIDENT of the INE shall:

  •  Define the general management guidelines and direct the activity of the INE, in order that it may carry out its attributes;
  • Guarantee the INE’s relations with the supervising Minister;
  • Direct the INE’s external relations;
  • Represent  the INE, except when the law demands other forms of representation;
  • Submit the INE’s plan and annual report of activities to the opinion of the Higher Statistics Council (CSE), and to the approval of the supervising Minister;
  • Convene, chair and direct meetings of the Consultative Council and of the Technical Council for Methodological Coordination;
  • Supervise the management of the INE’s human and financial resources, its assets, and its general support services;
  • Appoint, exonerate and dismiss leadership staff in the central services and the provincial delegations, and those in charge of the INE’s other forms of representation;
  • Exercise the other duties that may be entrusted to him by law and by the supervising minister.

 

DEPUTY PRESIDENTS

The Deputy Presidents are subordinate to the President of the INE. The Deputy Presidents of the INE shall:

  • Under the direction of the President, guide and ensure the coordination and technical integration of the statistical activity of the SEN;
  • Assist the President in the exercise of his duties;
  • Stand in for the President of the INE on occasions when he is unable to perform his duties, in accordance with the order of precedence that he defines;
  • Supervise the directorates of the INE Central Services that may be allocated to them by the President;
  • Exercise other powers that may be delegated or sub-delegated by the President.

CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL

The Consultative Council is a body that supports the President. It consists of the President, the Deputy Presidents and the directors of the INE’s central services.

If the President so decides, the provincial delegates may also participate in meetings of the Consultative Council.

Whenever the nature of the Consultative Council’s work so requires, the President of the INE may invite other staff.

  • The Consultative Council shall pronounce upon aspects of programming, organisation, coordination, integration and analysis of how the INE is functioning that may be submitted to it by the President.

 

TECHNICAL COUNCIL FOR METHODOLOGICAL COORDINATION

The Technical Council for Methodological Coordination is a body that supports the President. It consists of the President, the Deputy Presidents and those leaders of INE central services who are appointed to this end by the President.

  • The Technical Council for Methodological Coordination, also known as the Technical Council, shall deal with technical coordination, analysis of matters of a technical nature related to the activities of the SEN and the INE, and issue opinions on the matters that may be submitted to it by the President .

  • The Technical Council meets whenever convened by the President of the INE. 

 

DIRECTORATE OF INTEGRATION, COORDINATION AND FOREIGN RELATIONS

The Directorate of Integration, Coordination and Foreign Relations (DICRE) is the central service responsible for the planning and coordination of intra- and inter-institutional relations, and the management, publishing and marketing of information.

 

The Directorate of Integration, Coordination and Foreign Relations shall:

  • Advise the President in formulating the strategic and tactical planning of the SEN and the INE;

  • Implement an integrated system to follow, control and assess the implementation of the plans of the SEN and the INE;
  • Draft the plan and annual report of activities of the INE: Advise the President in directing the foreign relations activities of the INE, and encourage the INE’s participation in the activities of international bodies;

 

  • Prepare, accompany and evaluate training activities that involve international cooperation, in coordination with the Directorate of Administration and Human Resources;

 

  • Coordinate statistical codes, concepts and nomenclatures to be used by all surveys undertaken within the SEN, as well as by all administrative acts potentially subject to statistical use;

 

  • Exercise technical control over the SEN’s instruments of notation, give opinions on requests for registration of instruments of notation and register them in terms of the law;

 

  • Ensure the observance of legal norms concerning statistics, and centralise cases of statistical transgression;

 

  • Ensure the management of the INE’s information, computer and library services;

 

  • Centralise the publication and marketing of the information produced by the INE and other bodies of the SEN and ensure that the INE responds to requests for data from national and international bodies in a manner that is timely, coherent and as exhaustive as possible;

 

  • Provide technical support to the Higher Statistics Council;

 

  • Promote cooperation with national and foreign universities and research centres.

 

  • Promote and support the production of statistical publications by the central and provincial services and delegated bodies.

 

  • Undertake other activities that may be decided by the President. 

 

The Directorate of Integration, Coordination and Foreign Relations is structured into:

 

  • Secretariat;

 

  • Department of Coordination and Foreign Relations;

 

  • Department of Computerisation and Information Systems;

 

  • Department of Publication and Documentation.

 

DIRECTORATE OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS AND OVERALL INDICATORS

 

The Directorate of National Accounts and Overall Indictors (DCNIG) is the central service responsible for producing national accounts, price indices, overall indicators, studies and economic research.

 

The Directorate of National Accounts and Overall Indicators shall:

 

  • Draw up the annual national accounts;

 

  • Draw up special accounts, including provincial, regional and quarterly accounts;

 

  • Draw up syntheses and analyses of the economic conjuncture;

 

  • Establish and manage a central data base of socio-economic indicators and draw up studies on the impact and correlation of these;

 

  • Draw up proposals to improve the primary statistics; Draw up price indices, including the Consumer Price Index’

 

  • Coordinate with the other directorates of the central services, so as to guarantee integration of the statistical operations that may be required to produce the national accounts;

 

  • Undertake other activities that may be determined by the President and by the Deputy President in charge of the economic statistics portfolio.

 

 

The Directorate of National Accounts is structured into:

 

  • Secretariat

 

  • Department of National Accounts and Economic Studies

 

  • Department of Prices.

 

DIRECTORATE OF SECTOR AND COMPANY STATISTICS

 

The Directorate of Sector and Company Statistics (DESE) is the central service responsible for the production of sector and company economic statistics, and statistics on the environment and on the informal sector and for managing the central data base on companies and establishments.

 

 

The DESE shall:

  • Draw up current statistics on industry, agriculture, natural resources, fisheries, energy, water, construction, tourism, domestic and foreign trade, transport and communications, services in general, the environment, and the informal sector;

 

  • Plan, conduct and control sector and company censuses and surveys in the areas mentioned in the previous paragraph;

 

  • Create, manage, keep updated and produce statistics on the central data base of companies and establishments;

 

  • Draw up derived statistics, studies and publications in its area of competence;

 

  • Ensure the participation of the domestic and foreign users in planning and conducting the statistical operations under its responsibility, and ensuring that they obey the principles of the SEN and other provisions concerning statistical norms and coordination and integration.

 

  • Undertake other activities that may be determined by the President and by the Deputy President who supervises the economic statistics portfolio.

  

The DESE is structured into:

  • Secretariat

 

  • Department of Statistics on Property and the Environment

 

  • Department of Statistics on Services, Land Tenure and the Informal Sector.

 

DIRECTORATE OF CENSUSES AND SURVEYS

 

The Directorate of Censuses and Surveys (DCI) is the central service responsible for the planning, coordination and conduct of population and other censuses and surveys.

 

The DCI shall:

  • Design, and draw up the methodology and auxiliary documents for censuses and surveys;

 

  • Draw up norms for surveys, and coordinate their implementation;

 

  • Draw up norms, supervise, and support the design of samples for the surveys undertaken by the central bodies of the INE or by the INE’s delegated bodies;

 

  • Organise and keep updated cartography for statistical purposes, specifically for population censuses, surveys and counts;

 

  • Organise and keep updated the INE’s map library, the population data base, and the Geographical Information System (GIS);

 

  • Draw up geographical statistics, including demographic and socio-cultural atlases of the population;

 

  • Propose and collaborate in drawing up methodologies and auxiliary documents for censuses and surveys under the responsibility of the INE or of the INE’s delegated bodies;

 

  • Give its opinion on requests by other bodies for authorisation to undertake censuses and surveys;

 

  • Implement special surveys or statistical work intended for other bodies, as well as those ordered and approved by the INE;

 

  • Perform any other functions that may be entrusted to it by the President and the Deputy President who supervises the demographic, vital and social statistics.

 

 

The DCI is structured into:

 

  • Secretariat;

 

  • Department of Methods and Sampling;

 

  • Department of Cartography and Operations.

 

DIRECTORATE OF DEMOGRAHIC, VITAL AND SOCIAL STATISTICS

 

The Directorate of Demographic, Vital and Social Statistics (DEDVS) is the central service responsible for demographic and social analysis and research, as well as for the production and development of systems of social and democratic indicators.

 

The DEDVS shall:

 

  • Undertake demographic and social analysis and systematic research, based on using the available statistical data, particularly on the determinant factors that act upon the country’s demographic dynamics;

 

  • Draw up statistics on households and their living conditions, particularly on employment, remuneration and other working conditions, and on social welfare and security;

 

  • Draw up demographic indicators and estimates and population projections;

 

  • Draw up vital statistics, on population movements, as well as on legal activities, education, scientific research, gender, health, culture, sport, recreation and meteorology;

 

  • Undertake any other functions that may be requested of it by the President and by the Deputy President in charge of the portfolio of demographic, vital and social statistics.

 

The DEDVS is structured as follows:

 

  • Secretariat;

 

  • Department of Demographic Studies;
  • Department of Vital and Social Statistics.

 

DIRECTORATE OF ADMINISTRATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

 

The Directorate of Administration and Human Resources (DARH) is the INE central service responsible for the provision of general services of administration, management, development of human resources and staff training.

 

The Directorate of Administration and Human Resources shall:

 

  • Draw up draft INE budgets, and manage and account for spending; in particular, it shall,

 

  • Draw up he annual accounts in the terms stipulated in Article 24, paragraph 2, of the INE Organic Statute; it shall also collaborate with the DICRE in drawing up the annual report of INE activities, in the terms stipulated in Article 10, paragraph 1, line e), of the same statute;

 

  • Control and account for INE income and expenditure;

 

  • Ensure the acquisition of fixed and mobile assets, and guarantee that they are properly used and maintained;

 

  • Manage the INE’s general systems of transport, printing, telephones, hygiene, cleanliness, protocol and security of persons and property;

 

  • Undertake the general inventory of the INE’s assets, and ensure that it is permanently updated;

 

  • Give administrative support to the CSE, its respective commissions and working groups, in coordination with the DICRE,

 

  • Plan, coordinate and ensure the selection, management, training and development of the INE’s human resources, as well as the hiring of workers;

 

  • Observe and ensure compliance with the EGFE and other legislation applicable to workers in the public administration, and give its opinion, when requested, on matters concerning the management and development of human resources;

 

  • Design and control the academic and professional training plan for INE workers;

 

  • Ensure activities in the field of social welfare for INE workers;

 

  • Draw up the staff table, ensure its systematic management, and handle the INE’s staff information and records system;

 

  • Undertake other activities that may be determined by the President.

 

 

The Directorate of Administration and Human Resources is structured as follows:

 

  • Secretariat;

 

  • Department of Administration and Finance;

 

  • Department of Human Resources.

 

PROVINCIAL DELEGATIONS

 

The INE’s Provincial Delegations (DPINE) are decentralised INE services with the aim of ensuring at provincial level the undertaking of statistical operations of national, regional and local scope; and playing the role of provincial centres of information, documentation and national statistics.

 

The INE provincial delegations shall:

 

  • Participate in undertaking statistical operations of national scope, undertake statistical operations of a specifically provincial and local scope, perform the role of provincial centres of information and documentation and national statistics, as well as to manage their respective human, financial and  material resources;

 

  • Collaborate in the design of statistical operations of national scope;

 

  • Implement within their geographical area of jurisdiction statistical operations of national scope;

 

  • Design and implement statistical operations of regional scope, after they have been approved by the President of the INE;

 

  • Coordinate and publicise statistical information of provincial scope and carry out economic and social studies of provincial scope, after they have been approved by the President of the INE.

 

The DPINE are chaired by the Provincial Delegates, who have the status of provincial directors. They shall undertake their activities in direct hierarchical dependence on the President of the INE and in functional coordination with the various central services of the INE. They should also coordinate with the provincial governments and other private and public entities of the province.

 

The Provincial Delegates are appointed by the President of the INE.

 

The INE provincial delegations coordinate with the provincial governments, all state bodies and services, the municipalities and all other public and private bodies in their respective province, and these should provide all the collaboration necessary for carrying out their duties.

 

 

The DPINE are organised into the following services:

  • Secretariat

 

  • Department of Economic Statistics;

 

  • Department of Demographic and Social Statistics;

 

  • Department of Administration and Human Resources;