Statistical Office in Kielce belongs to public statistics services subordinated to the Central Statistical Office and acting on the base of:

& law dated 29th June 1995 on public statistics (Journal of Laws No. 88, item. 439 with later amendments),

& instruction No. 13 of the President of the CSO dated 23rd November 1998 on detailed scale of duties and organization of SO in Kielce (CSO Office Journal No. 18, item 125 /1998 with later amendments),

& law dated 18th December 1998 on civil service (Journal of Laws 1999 No. 49, item 483 with later amendments),

& Organization Statute of Office introduced by the instruction No. 15 of Director of the SO in Kielce dated 10th December 2003 with later amendments.

According to above documents main duties of the SO in Kielce include:

• organization and conducting statistical surveys, including national censuses,
• collection, preservation and elaboration of data for statistical surveys conducted according to programme of public statistics,
• making the results of surveys available and disseminating them,
• administering - in the part concerning Świętokrzyskie Voivodship - national official registers:

  REGON - units of the national economy,
  TERYT - territorial division,

• completing the following tasks for public statistics as a whole:
  • compiling methodological rules, organisation and conducting statistical surveys of the underground economy, including experimental
  • compiling the results and analyses of the above mentioned surveys, of which i. a. the estimations of the value added produced in the underground economy as a whole.