| National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat) | |
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| საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური (საქსტატი) | |
| Coat of Arms of Georgia | |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 2009 |
| Headquarters | 39, Guramishvili Street, 0181, Tsq'neti, Tbilisi |
| Agency executive | Zaza Chelidze, Executive Director |
| Website | |
| geostat.ge | |
The National Statistics Office (GeoStat) (Georgian: საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური, sak'art'velos statistikis erovnuli samsakhuri; საქსტატი, sak'stati) is an agency in charge of national statistics and responsible for carrying out population census in Georgia. It was established as a legal entity of public law according to the December 11, 2009 law of Georgia, succeeding the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Economic Development of Georgia. The agency is led by the Executive Director, who is appointed by the President of Georgia for the term of 4 years. The head office is located in the daba of Tsq'neti, Tbilisi.[1]
The earliest references to the collection of statistics in Georgia date from the 13th century. Materials from population censuses made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in various regions of the country have survived to the present day.[2]
On November 15, 1918 a temporary Statistical Bureau was formed within the Ministry of Agriculture of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. The bureau’s functions included development of materials for agricultural census, accounting of the available land and determining of norms for its distribution. On the basis of law enacted by the Constituent Assembly on July 25, 1919, a Republican Statistical Committee was formed within the same ministry. The committee was assigned to manage all types of statistical works of national importance. During the Soviet rule (1921–1991), the national statistics service was provided by the Central Statistics Division. In a newly independent Georgia, it was succeeded by the Social and Economic Information Committee established at the Parliament of Georgia (1991–1995), the State Department of Social and Economic Information (1995–1997), and the State Department of Statistics of Georgia (1997–2004). The department was subordinated to the Ministry of Economic Development in 2004 and made an independent agency under the current name in 2009.[2]
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