The operation of the Bureau is based on The Official Statistics Act. Its regular statistical surveys are based on the Programme of Statistical Surveys of the Republic of Croatia 2004 - 2007, which also gathered other institutions and ministries that make, together with the Bureau, the system of the official statistics.

Annual implementation plans define a title, periodicity, contents, implementation method, territorial characteristics, time schedule and the status of harmonisation of individual statistical surveys with national and international standards.

It was first in 1875 that the institution named the State Statistical Office was founded in the Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmati.   More detail...