Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SORS) (Slovene: Statistični urad Republike Slovenije, SURS) is an independent Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n state institution in charge of official statistical surveying

Statistical survey

Survey methodology is the field that studies surveys, that is, the sample of individuals from a population with a view towards making statistical inferences about the population using the sample. Polls about public opinion, such as political beliefs, are reported in the news media in democracies....

. It is responsible directly to the Prime Minister of Slovenia

Prime Minister of Slovenia

There have been six Prime Ministers of Slovenia since that country gained its independence in the breakup of Yugoslavia. Unlike the President of Slovenia, who is directly elected, the Prime Minister is appointed by the National Assembly, and must control a majority there in order to...

. One of the activities is a nation-wide 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...

every 10 years, the last being an exception as it was conducted in 2002. The next census will be carried out in 2011.

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