Instituto Nacional de Estatística
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The Instituto Nacional de Estatística is the National Statistical
Institute of Portugal
. Its headquarters are located in Lisbon
. It also calls itself Statistics Portugal in English. The first census
in Portugal was carried out in 1864. The census takes place every 10 years and as of March 2011 a new census is being conducted (the previous census having been conducted in 2001).
Instituto Nacional de Estatística publishes REVSTAT - Statistical Journal.
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
Institute of Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. Its headquarters are located in Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
. It also calls itself Statistics Portugal in English. The first census
Census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
in Portugal was carried out in 1864. The census takes place every 10 years and as of March 2011 a new census is being conducted (the previous census having been conducted in 2001).
Instituto Nacional de Estatística publishes REVSTAT - Statistical Journal.
See also
- Office for National StatisticsOffice for National StatisticsThe Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- Overview :...
- EurostatEurostatEurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide the European Union with statistical information at European level and to promote the integration of statistical methods across the Member States of the European Union,...
- Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística