Official statistics continue to evolve with the inclusion of new data sources, 27/06/2025
The HCSO welcomes the adoption of the amendment to the Statistics Act
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) is committed to the continuous improvement of statistical production procedures in order to increase accuracy, timeliness and efficiency, and to reduce costs, time-to-market and burden on respondents. The activities of the HCSO are governed by Act CLV of 2016 (Statistics Act), which was amended in several points on 23 June 2025. As a result, the Office will be able to access individually identifiable data held by civilian or business data holders, which are subject to the strict rules on the protection of individual data set out in the Statistics Act and national and international standards.
The HCSO is committed to the continuous improvement of statistical production processes to increase accuracy, timeliness and efficiency, and to reduce costs, time-to-market and burden on respondents, which is also widely accepted internationally by involving as wide a range of administrative data sources as possible in the production of statistics. The HCSO currently uses more than three hundred administrative data sources and is continuously striving to include new data sources.
On 23 June 2025, Act CLV of 2016 (the Statistics Act) was amended to provide for access to individually identifiable data held by civil or business data holders, which is also enshrined at EU level in Regulation (EU) 2024/3018 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Statistics. The amendment to the law allows the HCSO to have access to personal data in exceptional cases, for categories of data defined by the Government in the Regulation, when the purpose of official statistics cannot be achieved otherwise. The data handled are subject to the same strict rules that apply to all data handled by the HCSO under the Statistics Act and national and international standards for the protection of individual data.
In order to develop research to support the objectives of users, the extension of the activities of the Hungarian Demographic Research Institute of the HCSO to include economic sciences will result in the establishment of the Institute for Quantitative Social and Economic Research, which will become the base institution for applied quantitative social and economic sciences and basic and applied demographic research in Hungary. Its mission is to apply the latest results of quantitative social and economic research and to promote the theory and practice of population science.
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