central statistical organisation of india was established on 2 may 1951.
central statistical organisation of india was established on 2 may 1951.
when was central statistical organisation of india established?
2 may 1951
it is also responsible for the compilation and publication of national income statistics.









































the cso through its industrial statistical wing conducts the annual survey of industries and publishes the result.









































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the cso was set up in the cabinet secretariat on 2 may 1951 as a part of the cabinet secretariat and having co-ordinating and advisory functions. at that time the name of cso was central statistical institute. in 1954 the csi merged with cso and the new name was central statistical organization. recently, for a third time its name changed and now it called as central statistics office.
central statistics office (india)
sub-national statistical services when autonomous are part of the overall statistical architecture of a country along with a central statistical organisation existing in nearly every country (see list of national and international statistical services), and also various sectoral statistical services established in ministerial departments or other government agencies. this is particularly true in the case of most federation of states as shown in the table below. those of these sub-national statistical services established in non-independent territories (from uk, netherlands, france, etc.) generally act as a central statistical organisation for the territory. the mandate of these autonomous services varies from country to country; their statistical production intends to respond mainly to local needs for statistics, complementary to the production of national statistical data.
sub-national autonomous statistical services