Statistics Korea

The Statistical Register Division was established to strengthen statistical data hub functions. The Smart Survey Center was established to carry out respondent-centered customized surveys. To produce SNA-centered economic statistics and strengthen planning functions of economic statistics, the Income Statistics Development Division was abolished and then its responsibilities were assigned to the Economic Statistics Planning Division and the Income Statistics Division. To develop and produce enterprise-related statistics, the Enterprise Statistics Division was established. To change the paradigm for the support of statistical agencies, the Sponsored Survey Division was abolished.

The Statistical Information Digital Innovation Division was established to responsibly carry out and rapidly cope with statistical information digital innovation projects.

• Organization of Statistics Korea: Headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 2 deputy director generals, 4 directors, 35 divisions, and 2 teams), Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions and 1 team), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics, 1 Local Office of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics
  * Autonomous organization (Statistical Information Digital Innovation Division)

To strengthen non-face-to-face surveys, the Remote Survey Team was newly established. After the re-allocation of statistical work responsibilities of each division, the General Division for Regional Statistics and the International Statistics Division were abolished.

• Organization of Statistics Korea: Headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 2 deputy director generals, 4 directors, 34 divisions, and 2 teams), Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions and 1 team), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics, 1 Local Office of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics

The International Statistics Team was newly established to systematically carry out statistical diplomacy works. In the Statistical Research Institute, the Policy in Statistics Team was newly established to strengthen statistics-based policy support by carrying out research for the improvement and development of major policy-related statistics.

• Organization of Statistics Korea: Headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 2 deputy director generals, 4 directors, 35 divisions, and 2 teams), Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions and 1 team), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics, 1 Local Office of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics

The Policy Support Division and the Statistics Coordination Division were abolished. And the Economic Statistics Coordination Division and the Social Statistics Coordination Division were newly established to streamline coordination activities of national statistics. The functions of Statistics Korea were revised to strengthen data hub functions. The Strategy Performance Team was abolished and the Intelligent Information Management Team was newly established.

• Organization of Statistics Korea: Headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 2 deputy director generals, 4 directors, 35 divisions, and 1 team), Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics, 1 Local Office of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics

The Deputy Director General for Short-term Economic Statistics was established to strengthen the analysis of short-term economic statistics. The Short-term Household Income and Expenditure Statistics Division was established to expand the provision of household economy-related statistics.

• Organization of Statistics Korea: Headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 2 deputy director generals, 4 directors, 35 divisions, and 1 team), Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics, 1 Local Office of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics

Gangwon Local Office of Statistics and Sejong District Office of Statistics were newly established to meet demand for regional statistics.

• Headquarters (2 director generals, 5 bureaus, 4 deputy director generals, 34 divisions and 1 team), the Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), the Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics, 1 Local Office of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics

KOSTAT established a dedicated team (Strategy Performance Team) to strengthen customer-oriented sustainable performance and performance-oriented management.

• The Organization of Statistics Korea:
  Headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 1 deputy director general, 4 officers and 34 divisions, 1 team and 1 secretariat), the Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), the Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional offices of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics

To strengthen the coordination and standardization of regional statistics, develop regional income statistics, manage the provision of statistics to international organizations and strengthen the development of administrative statistics, some divisions are newly established, and functions and officials are rearranged among divisions.
<3 divisions (General Division for Regional Statistics, Income Statistics Development Division, Short-Term Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics Division) are newly established. The Population Census Division and the Register-based Census Division are merged.>

• The Statistics Korea is made up of headquarters (1 director general, 5 bureaus, 1 deputy director general, 4 officers and 34 divisions), the Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), the Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Offices of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics.

The Statistics Korea revised and reinforced its organization to cope with changes in statistical environment and provide policy-tailored statistical services through convergence and analysis of linkage between statistical data and other various data.

• The Statistics Korea consists of 1 director general, 5 bureaus, 1 deputy director general, 4 officers and 32 divisions in the headquarters. And the Statistics Korea operates affiliated agencies including the Statistical Training Institute, the Statistical Research Institute, 5 Regional Offices of Statistics and 34 District Offices of Statistics.

According to the guideline on government reorganization, the team system was abolished. 4 teams were promoted to Spokesperson, Statistical Standards Division, Regional Accounts Statistics Division and Geospatial Information Service Division. Performance Management Team and Information Technology Service Team were transferred to Planning and Budgeting Officer and Informatics Planning Division, respectively.

• The KOSTAT consists of 1 director general, 5 bureaus, 4 officers and 30 divisions in the headquarters. And the KOSTAT operates the Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), the Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Statistics Offices and 49 Branch Offices.

The KOSTAT strengthens the statistical production system by using administrative data for accurate and timely statistical production. The Administrative Data Policy Division, the Administrative Data Management Division and the Register-based Census Division are newly established. And the KOSTAT reinforces the contingency plans.

• The KOSTAT consists of 1 general director, 5 bureaus, 4 officers, 26 divisions and 6 teams in the headquarters. And the KOSTAT operates the Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), the Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Statistics Offices and 49 Branch Offices.

To strengthen the capacity of statistical production, functions were partially adjusted among Survey Management Bureau, Economic Statistics Bureau, Population & Social Statistics Bureau, and Informatics and Service Bureau. As more and more administrative data were used for statistical activities, information security-related responsibilities were reinforced. In addition, some operational problems were improved.

• KOSTAT consists of 1 general director, 5 bureaus, 4 officers, 23 divisions and 7 teams in the headquarters. And KOSTAT operates the Statistical Training Institute (2 divisions), the Statistical Research Institute (3 divisions), 5 Regional Statistics Offices and 49 Branch Offices.