National Statistical Office in India

• It comes under the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation.
• It houses the national sample survey office.
• Its functions include collection, compilation, and release of official statistics.
• Administers the civil registry act.
• Production, publication, and dissemination of general-purpose statistics.
• Statistics are made credible, objective, relevant, and transparent.
• Statistics are kept confidential.
• Statistics made available in several forms.
• Self-service retrieval of statistical information.
• Constituted in 1999 after merger of Department of Statistics and Programme Implementation.