National Statistics and Censuses Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos, INDEC) is the Argentine government agency responsible for the collection and processing of statistical data. The institute also analyses economical and social indicators such as inflation rate, consumer price index and unemployment, among others.
Functions
The INDEC is supervised by different federal agencies, and is under the direct oversight of the Secretaria de Programacion Economica y Regional (Secretariat of Economic and Regional Planning) of the Ministerio de Economia y Produccion (Ministry of Economy and Production, MECON).
The INDEC also coordinates the Sistema Estadistico Nacional (National Statistics' System, SEN) under principles of normative centralization and governmental division. In the SEN works together national, provincial and local statistical services, and in each province there is a statistics bureau called Direccion de Estadistica dependent of the provincial government, that takes and processes information.
Censuses in Argentina are officially held every 10 years. Performed censuses have been in 1869, 1895, 1914, 1947, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991 (delayed for budget problems) and 2001.
In-between censuses the information is permanently updated with the sampled Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (Permanent Homes' Survey). Official complete reports are delivered every 6 months.
History
The first national statistics' centre was the Direccion General de Estadistica (General Directorate of Statistics), established in 1894 as a division of the Ministry of Public Finances. Fifty years later, in 1944, the Consejo Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (National Council of Statistics and Censuses) was created, with dependencies on both the Ministry of the Interior and the National Presidential Office. Other agencies were later formed in 1950, 1952, and 1956 before the final creation of the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos in 1968 by Law 17622 and Decrees 3110/70 and 1831/93.
Data manipulation
A conflict raised within the organism when the government of President Nestor Kirchner replaced Gabriela Bevacqua, the Consumer Prices Indicator director (Indice de Precios al Consumidor - IPC) with an external functionary, after an inflation report of 1.5% for January 2007. The head of the INDEC later resigned"Crisis en el INDEC: se fue su titular, en medio de la pelea con Economia" Clarin , and a new directory was placed by the Ministery of Economy"Economia designo a la nueva cupula del INDEC" Clarin and several employees manifested their discontent"La conduccion del INDEC salio a enfrentar a los empleados que ayer bloquearon las entradas" Clarin for what they saw as a violation of INDEC's authonomy, and a manouver of the Minister of Economy under Felisa Miceli to illigally keep inflation indicators under one percent"Ampliaron la denuncia por la causa del INDEC" Clarin .
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