Country Profile of Liechtenstein
Main statistical agency
Main statistical agency name
Abteilung Statistik
Web address
http://www.llv.li/amtsstellen/llv-as-home.htm
Position in the government
Statistical Office reports to the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
Organizational structure and finance
Organizationally divided the Office for Statistics in the three departments and International Registries, economic and education statistics and national accounts (NA). Overall, working in the Office of Statistics Liechtenstein 10 employees.
Multi-annual or annual work program
The annual schedule for the publication and the new projects for new statistics or improved publications are defined or revised every year.
Multi-annual program
1) The Office of Statistics has a four-year program, the annual review and a one-year extension is.
2) The multi-year program provides information about:
a) the planned statistical publications;
b) the planned surveys;
c) the progress of work in projects;
d) the new projects.
3) The multi-year program is annually approved by the government.
Main duties
Official statistics must produce statistical information about various areas and aspects of society. Many surveys are carried out and the results are made public through publications or the mass media.
Brief history and other relevant background information
Brief history and other relevant background information
Initial surveys were made in Liechtenstein from the year 1784 in the form of censuses. Institutionalized, the official statistics, however, until 1950 with the creation of the Office of Statistics. In 1976, the Office for Statistics in the Office of Economic integrated. January 2009 is the official statistics Liechtenstein again as an independent, professionally independent statistical office organized. At government level, the operations of the Office for Statistics Bureau assigned to the department.
Legal basis
Legal basis
Law of 13 May 1976 on Official Statistics (Statistikgesetz).
The activities of the Office of Statistics are based on the Statistics Law of 17 September 2008, LGBl. The Statistics Act, together with the obligations under the EEA Agreement, the scope of statistical activities.
Other producers of official statistics
Other producers of official statistics
There is a joint data collection with the Immigration and Passport Office on persons employed.
Statistical advisory bodies
Statistical advisory bodies
The Statistics Commission is appointed by the Government for a term of four years. Responsibility of the Statistics Commission is the government and the Office of Statistics on important issues of official statistics to advise. In particular, it has the multi-year program as well as amendments to the Statistics Act and its regulations and to evaluate proposals for the development of official statistics to be worked out. The Statistics Commission is composed of six to eight members, which are representative of the communities, associations, as well as specialized persons.
Data collection
Most recent population census
5 December 2000
Access to administrative data
The production of statistics in many cases is based on administrative data, regarding nationals and non-nationals, vehicle, legal persons, etc., with the use of registers of great importance.
Data confidentiality
Confidentiality obligations may be a notification to the Office for statistics only be invoked against, when a law to transfer or use of data for statistical purposes expressly exclude.
1) For statistical purposes, personal data must be collected by appropriate technical and organizational measures against unauthorized processing.
2) personal data are kept so that they are by persons not authorized neither accessed nor altered or destroyed.
3) For the purpose of data collection based name and address lists, and survey material with personal identification numbers may not be kept. They must be destroyed as soon as they are for statistical activities, or for the register are not needed anymore.
Data dissemination
Main publications
Current demographic and economic development
Unemployment Statistics
Banking Statistics
Population Statistics
Education Statistics
Gross domestic product
Gross National Income
Naturalization Statistics
Energy Statistics
Export figures
Financial Services
Geographical indications
Freight transport statistics
Import figures
National index of consumer prices
Agriculture
Liechtenstein in Figures
Motor vehicles
Tourism Statistics
National Accounts
Marital Statistics
Languages of main publications
German
How are data disseminated (Paper, CD Rom, Website, online databases, databanks)?
All new statistics are always published by 2 p.m. All publications are on the web. All publications are available as hard copies free of charge, except the Statistical Yearbook.
Availability of microdata for research purposes
On the basis of non disclosure agreements with researchers.
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