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New President to lead the HCSO 05/06/2023
New title and expanded content for the first release on commercial accommodation establishments 31/05/2023
Áron Kincses, Deputy President of HCSO, becomes doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 05/05/2023
The data category underlying earnings statistics is enlarged 22/03/2023
HCSO publishes the first results of the 2022 census 16/02/2023
Communication of the HCSO on the violation of the embargo rules on official statistical data 10/02/2023
In-person customer service and the sale of publications are temporarily paused 08/02/2023
Communication of the HCSO on pre-release access to official statistical data, 06/02/2023
The territorial code system has been modified 27/01/2023
A new function has been added to the Publication and revision calendar 17/01/2023
Please be informed that, pursuant to Government Decree 369/2022 (IX. 29.), our Information Service will be closed between 22 December 2022 and 6 January 2023. 20/12/2022
Statistical cooperation among V4 countries continues 01/12/2022
2023 dissemination calendar for first releases is now available 23/11/2022
Enumeration stage of the population census starting on Thursday 24/10/2022
Notice regarding the consideration of gas and electric energy price changes in calculating the consumer price index 09/08/2022
Face-to-face and telephone reception temporarily suspended 18/07/2022
Our Information Service will be closed for technical reasons 08/06/2022
Dr. Gabriella Vukovich is again elected Chair of the United Nations Statistical Commission 28/02/2022
For technical reasons, our personal reception will be closed on Friday 21 January 2022 20/01/2022
Service disruption due to IT maintenance 20/01/2022
The "Society" volume of the National Atlas of Hungary wins a prize in Florence! 22/12/2021
Customer reception during the holidays 16/12/2021
The 2022 dissemination calendar for first releases is now available 14/12/2021
Due to network maintenance on our website on 16.10.2021 (Saturday) between 00:01 - 06:00 am, service outages are expected 14/10/2021
The dissemination database will be unavailable on 15 October 2021 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. due to maintenance 13/10/2021
Due to network maintenance our website may be temporarily unavailable on 16 September 2021 (Thursday) between 6 and 10 p.m. 14/09/2021
The main building of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and the HCSO Library will open its doors to the public on the occasion of the Cultural Heritage Days on 18-19 September 2021. 14/09/2021
Our scientific journal Regional Statistics in the Q2 group of the Scopus scientific database. 02/06/2021
Our scientific journal Területi Statisztika has been promoted to the Q2 group of the Scopus scientific database. 02/06/2021
The dissemination database will be unavailable on 28 May 2021 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. due to maintenance. 27/05/2021
Our personal reception and research room are waiting for you again 11/05/2021
On April 16 (Friday) from 19:00 to 23:00, some services may be down for maintenance 15/04/2021
Due to maintenance the dissemination database will be unavailable on 12 April 2021 (Monday) between 5 and 6 p.m. 09/04/2021
An upgraded set of STADAT tables on the HCSO website
New features in set of tables summarizing key data 06/04/2021
Our customer reception and sales of publications are temporarily suspended 08/03/2021
Gabriella Vukovich is Vice-Chair of the UN Statistical Commission 02/03/2021
HCSO starts to release labour force survey data according to a new methodology 26/02/2021
Due to network maintenance our website is expected to show brief service outages between 26 February 4 p.m. and 27 February 8 a.m. 2021 26/02/2021
The date of the population census is changing 08/02/2021
Holiday customer service 21/12/2020
The 2021 Publication Calendar for the HCSO First Releases has been published 18/12/2020
Customer service in person is temporarily unavailable 2020. 14/12/2020
Changes in next year’s household surveys 03/12/2020
Due to network maintenance, our website may be temporarily unavailable on 5 November 2020. 04/11/2020
Our personal customer reception is temporarily suspended 25/09/2020
Regional Statistics and Területi Statisztika are rated Q2 and Q3, respectively, in the Scopus scientific database 18/06/2020
Due to maintenance, our Interactive Visualizing Mapping Application will be unavailable on 11 June 2020 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 10/06/2020
Due to network maintenance, our website will be unavailable for short periods between 17 and 19 April 2020. 16/04/2020
Due to maintenance the Dissemination database will be temporarily inaccessible on 3 April 2020 between 4 and 8 p.m. 02/04/2020
Dissemination of European Statistics after Brexit in statistical publications 02/03/2020
Special holiday hours 18/12/2019
HCSO has published the calendar of its first releases for 2020 20/11/2019
Redesigning our world: sustainable development framework 2030 06/11/2019
Our site is expected to be unavailable from 20:00 to 22:00 on 10/03/2019 due to technical reasons. 03/10/2019
There was a correction in the first release titled "Balance of general government sector" 01/10/2019
The SDMX World Conference organized by HCSO was held in Budapest 25/09/2019
Our site will be unavailable from 15:00 on 09/20/2019 due to technical reasons. 18/09/2019
Introduction of co-ordination of samples for business statistics surveys conducted by the HCSO 04/07/2019
How do you use the HCSO website? – Call for participation in user research 05/06/2019
European Statistics Code of Practice 29/04/2019
Please note that the telephone number of the Information Service is temporarily unavailable due to technical reasons. 10/04/2019
Earnings statistics from new data source 29/03/2019
The First release ’Retail trade, February 2019’ is published earlier 28/03/2019
Statistics on earnings is renewing – more detailed information 22/01/2019
Publication of the Dissemination calendar of first releases for 2019. 02/01/2019
Due to maintenance the data in the Metainformation menu is temporarily inaccessible by topic at present. 20/12/2018
Gabriella Vukovich was elected Vice President of the International Statistical Institute. 14/12/2018
The Dissemination database is not be available on 10 December 2018 due to technical reasons. 10/12/2018
The Dissemination database will not be available between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on 6 December 2018 due to maintenance. 05/12/2018
Relation between National Statistical Offices is tightened 31/10/2018
Jubilee time use conference in Budapest
40th International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR) Conference – Budapest, 24–26 October 2018
25/10/2018
Due to technical reasons downtime or slowdown may occur in the telephone access to the Information service occasionally and temporarily 03/10/2018
Updates of time series of quarterly national accounts and GDP 02/10/2018
Medium-Sized Towns in European Spatial Structure – international conference, 17 October 2018 18.09.2018. – Presentations delivered at the conference are available. 25/10/2018
Release of the Hungarian Generic Statistical Business Process Model (HGSBPM) 29/08/2018
Our website is expected to be unavailable from 2 pm to 5 pm on 3 August 2018 (Friday) due to maintenance 01/08/2018
Due to technical reasons, short downtimes or slowdown may occur in the access to our website on 26 July 2018 (Thursday) between 4:30 and 6:30 pm. 24/07/2018
Our website will not be available on 8 June between 2 pm and 5 pm due to technical reasons 05/06/2018
GDPR and management of statistical data 28/05/2018
Leaders of the National Statistical Institutes of the Visegrád Group (V4) Signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Co-operation 19/04/2018
The new Classification of Domains of Official Statistics (DOS) entered into force from 3 April 2018 09/04/2018
Due to technical reasons, short downtimes or network slowdown may occur in the access to our website 20/02/2018
Hungarian Central Statistical Office is now using the latest version of JDemetra+ for seasonal adjustments 16/01/2018
Publication of the dissemination calendar of first releases for year 2018 04/12/2017
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office organises the most significant statistical conference of the European Union for the second time 21/09/2017
Elek Fényes born 210 years ago 07/07/2017
Our website is expected to be unavailable from 2 pm on 7 July to 8 am on 9 July 2017 due to the complete network reconstruction of HCSO 04/07/2017
The Information Service will not be available on Friday, 19 May 2017 from 12 pm due to network failure 18/05/2017
The Dissemination database is not going to be available on 10 May from 10:00 to 18:00 due to maintenance 08/05/2017
The National Statistical Co-ordination Board was established 30/03/2017
Change in the release date of the first release ‘Construction, February 2017’ 16/03/2017
The Dissemination database will not be available between 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on 3 March 2017 due to maintenance 01/03/2017
Hungarian Central Statistical Office is now using JDemetra+ for seasonal adjustment 21/02/2017
Press release on changing the release date of the first release ‘Livestock’ in September 15/02/2017
The journal ‘Területi Statisztika’ has been included in SCOPUS, the largest scientific database of the world 26/01/2017
Publication of the dissemination calendar of first releases for the year 2017 04/01/2017
Service interruption due to maintenance 23/11/2016
Changes implemented in quarterly time series of gross domestic product (GDP) 15/11/2016
Publication of the dissemination calendar of first releases for the 1st quarter of 2017 08/11/2016
Gabriella Vukovich, President of HCSO was elected a Council member of the International Statistical Institute 26/10/2016
The website of Hungarian Central Statistical Office is not going to be available from 23:00 on 6 October to 04:00 on 7 October due to maintenance 04/10/2016
The Senate of the Corvinus University of Budapest awarded the title of honorary professor to Dr. Zsolt Németh, Deputy President of HCSO 04/10/2016
The Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2015 has been published 26/08/2016
Press release on changing the September release date of the first release ‘Ear cereals’ 16/08/2016
Decision No. 76/2016 (VII.5.) ME of the Prime Minister on the renewal of the nomination of the Deputy President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office 12/07/2016
Zsolt Spéder was elected the President of the European Association for Population Studies 12/07/2016
The fixed lines of HCSO cannot, or can only intermittently, be called from outside the office 07/07/2016
The website is not going to be available between 7 July 8 p.m. and 8 July 2 a.m. due to maintenance 06/07/2016
The website is not going to be available from 8:00 to 20:00 on 18 June due to maintenance 17/06/2016
Decision No. 62/2016 (VI.7.) ME of the Prime Minister on the renewal of the nomination of the President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office 08/06/2016
Presidents of statistical offices from all over the world hold their meeting in HCSO 25/05/2016
Preliminary 30-day GDP flash estimate for Europe 29/04/2016
Press Release on Eurostat’s reservations in relation to the Hungarian EDP Report 21/04/2016
HCSO website will not be available between 8 April 2016, 3 p.m. and 10 April 2016, 12 a.m. 06/04/2016
Press release on changing the release date of the first release ‘Construction’ 04/01/2016
Applying changes in gross domestic product (GDP) calculation to quarterly data 13/11/2015
Publishing the dissemination calendar of first releases for the year 2016 09/10/2015
The publication titled ‘National accounts of Hungary, 2014 (2nd preliminary data)’ has been published 30/09/2015
Maintenance works in the Dissemination database sub-menu of the website 03/09/2015
Doors Open Days at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office – 19–20 September 2015 02/09/2015
Our website will not be available in the evening on 18 August 2015 18/08/2015
“Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2014” has come out 13/08/2015
Access to our website may sometimes be problematic in the evening on 29 July 2015 27/07/2015
Access to our website may sometimes be problematic in the evening on 22 July 2015 20/07/2015
The University of Miskolc awarded the title honorary doctorate ’Doctor honoris causa’ to Dr. Gabriella Vukovich 29/06/2015
Due to software development, the Dissemination database will not be available temporarily 18/06/2015
Due to software upgrades, the accessibility of our website may not be smooth 18/06/2015
HUNGARY, 2014 – Report of HCSO to the Parliament on the state of economy and society 12/06/2015
Statistical yearbooks of 2012 are freely downloadable 09/06/2015
20 October 2015, World Statistics Day 03/06/2015 4:30 p.m.
The Statistical Pocketbook of Hungary, 2014 has been published 18/05/2015
Software development in the submenu ’Metainformation’ on our website 16/04/2015
Cooperation agreement between the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and the Corvinus University of Budapest 10/04/2015
Press release of Hungarian Central Statistical Office: Stake of judging gross domestic product (GDP) 02/04/2015
András Klinger, demographer, former deputy president of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) passed away. 25/03/2015
Press release of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office in connection with the article titled ‘Mesevilág’ published on 12 March 2015 in HVG 13/03/2015
First releases of HCSO get renewed 24/02/2015
Press release on publishing the dissemination calendar of first releases and statistical reflections containing leading indicators for the year 2015 19/12/2014
Since December 2014, grossing up data of the Labour Force Survey is based on the 2011 census data 17/12/2014
The publication ’Living standards of households’ has been published 26/11/2014
Applying methodological change in gross domestic product (GDP) calculation to quarterly data 14/11/2014
Balance and debt of general government sector - second EDP notification of 2014 21/10/2014.
Publication of preliminary dissemination calendar of first releases for 1st quarter 2015 06/10/2014
Balance and debt of general government sector - second EDP notification of 2014 30/09/2014
Dr. Géza Tóth successfully defended his habilitation at the Faculty of Earth Science and Engineering of the University of Miskolc 30/09/2014
Methodological change in calculation of gross domestic product (GDP) and in compilation of national accounts 30/09/2014
Doors Open Days at the Hungarian Central Statistical Office 09/09/2014
The updating of the Dissemination database of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office does not work today due to technical reasons 09/09/2014
The UN Secretary General invited dr. Gabriella Vukovich, President of HCSO to the independent panel of experts established for the purpose to put data revolution in the service of sustainable development 05/09/2014
Pál Pozsonyi, head of the National Accounts Department was decorated with the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary 21/08/2014
The publication titled “Statistical Yearbook of Hungary, 2013” has come out 21/08/2014
The European Population Conference is held in Hungary 27/06/2014
Gabriella Vukovich Acting Chair of UN Statistical Commission 16/06/2014