The Central Statistics Office is the statistical agency responsible for Ireland'scensus and other state data collection activities. The office is answerable to the Taoiseach and has its main offices in Cork.
External links
Official site - Central Statistics Office (http://www.cso.ie/)
Population of each Province, County and City, 2002 (http://www.cso.ie/principalstats/cenpop.html)
The CentralStatisticsOffice (CSO) is the statistical agency responsible for the gathering of "information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions" in the Republic of Ireland, in particular the National Census which is held every five years.
The CSO was established, on a statutory basis, by the Statistics Act, 1993 in an attempt to reduce the number of separate offices responsible for collecting statistics for the state.
The CSO had existed, as an independent ad-hoc office, within the Department of the Taoiseach since June 1949, and its work greatly increased in the coming decades particularly from 1973 with Ireland joining the European Community.
The Office may provide, for statistical purposes only, information obtained in any way under this Act or the repealed enactments, in such form that it cannot be directly or indirectly related to an identifiable person or undertaking, to such person and subject to such charges, conditions and restrictions as the Director General may determine.
Any Officer of statistics who in the pretended performance of his functions as such officer obtains or attempts to obtain by any means from any person on any occasion any information which he is not lawfully entitled to obtain by that means from that person on that occasion shall be guilty of an offence.
Prima facie evidence of any official statistics may be given in all legal proceedings by the production of a document purporting to contain such statistics and to be issued by the CentralStatisticsOffice or to be signed by the Director General.
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