The creation of this institution means the beginning of official statistics in Spain. On the 3rd November 1856, General Narváez, President of the Cabinet of Ministers of Elizabeth II, signs a decree establishing a commission made up of expert personalities in charge of creating General Royal Statistics.

A Decree date 12th September 1870, during the provisional government of General Serrano, creates the Institute of Geography. Three years later, on 19th June 1873, it is called the Institute of Geography and Statistics thus taking responsibility of collecting any numerical information for the State.

INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats; that is, nearly 100% of our current production.

The information available at INEbase is always updated. All available information can be viewed on INEbase the moment the statistical data are supplied to the media: press release, table summaries and detailed results.   More detail...