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

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

-  instruction No. 10 of the President of the CSO dated 23rd November 1998 on detailed scale of duties and organization of SO in Kraków (CSO Office Journal No. 17, item 121 /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. 3/2006 of Director of the SO in Kraków dated 6th March 2006 with later   amendments.

 According to above documents main duties of the SO in Kraków 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 Małopolskie Voivodship -  country official registers:
  

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

• completing the following tasks for public statistics as a whole:  
  preparing methodological rules, conducting researches and making studies and analyses in a field of culture statistics,

conducting research in a scope of using administrative data sources for public statistics,

participating in international cooperation in a field of statistics of euroregions, particularly in organizing mutual 

 statistical researches as well as working out and publishing publications about Tatry euroregion,

participating in researches of the Statistical Office in Poznań in order of developing big cities statistics.