Address:    17, Bokhtar street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Telephone: (992 372)  23-25-53

Fax:           (992 372)  21-43-75

E-mail:       stat@tojikiston.com

 

Management of Goskomstat

 

The structure of Goskomstat

 

The scheme of Goscomstat

The State Statistical Committee of the Tajik Republic (Goscomstat) is the central statistical office of the country. The Goscomstat is administratively autonomous and its head serves as the country's chief statistician who reports to the President and government. The Goscomstat is responsible for population censuses, household surveys, demographic statistics and a wide range of economic statistics involving establishment and enterprise surveys, as well as prices, international trade (in collaboration with the Customs Department of the Ministry of State Revenue and Colections - MSRC), the national accounts, government finance, agricultural, labor and social statistics. In the case of social statistics, the Goscomstat compiles the data from administrative records of corresponding Ministries.  The National Bank of Tajikistan (NBT) compiles monetary data.   

 

The statistics collected and disseminated by the Goscomstat are governed by the Law of the Tajik Republic on State Statistics (No 431, dated May15,1997) that establishes the independence of the Goscomstat and guarantees the confidentiality of the data provided by the individual statistical units. The Law further requires the Goscomstat to develop the statistics according to international methodological recommendations and to provide objectivity and integrity of the statistics. The measures that the Goscomstat intends to implement to enhance the quality of its statistics are described in its three year Multi-annual Integrated Statistical Programme.  

 

860 persons (as of January 1, 2004) work in the Goscomstat network that includes the head office in Dushanbe, the main computing center, and local offices. The primary data are collected in the local offices, forwarded to the regional offices and ultimately to the main computing center, where the information is processed in accordance with the specifications provided by the subject-matter specialists in the head office. The main organizational blocks in the Goscomstat, that are replicated in the computing center and the regional offices, are subject-matter divisions that are supervised by three deputies to the chairman who also divide the responsibility for supervising the regional and Dushanbe city offices.  

 

The information in the Goscomstat is prepared according to the program of statistical works and  Publication catalogue. The main publication of the Goscomstat is the monthly report  Socio-Economic Situation that includes the latest monthly data with brief commentary and is circulated to the offices of the President, Prime Minister and ministries and departments. This publication is available to the public. The report is published by the 12th day of the month following the accounting period. The annual publications also are issued: Statistical Yearbook of Tajikistan, Regions of Tajikistan, Tajikistan in figures and thematic publications.