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History

History

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National Statistics Institute (INE)

National Director: Ricardo Vicuña Poblete

Government agency under the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Reconstruction
  • Year founded: 1843
  • Headquarters: Morandé N°801, Floor 22, Santiago, Chile
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The National Statistics Institute is one of the government agencies of Chile with the longest trajectory. Since 1843, the year of its official creation, its work has included numerous censuses, surveys, and studies of the nation. Currently, INE provides more than seventy quality indicators on a wide range of topics, including employment, prices, population, culture, public safety, economy, and other areas relevant to decision-making in public policy.

Two important milestones in the history of the organization occurred during the government of Manuel Bulnes. On 27 March 1843, a decree was issued that, for the first time, created a Statistical Office in Chile, which was under the Ministry of the Interior. The objective of the Statistical Office was to "provide accurate information on the current conditions of the country in general and of each of the provinces and their departments". In 1847, a law was finally enacted that established a statistical office, which initially consisted of four officials from the ministry. In July 1843, the Census Law was adopted, which established a ten-year term for regular population censuses in Chile to be conducted by the Statistical Office.

In 1928, national statistics were expanded and for the first time censuses of industry and commerce were conducted. The same year saw the publication of the first Consumer Price Index (CPI), which was based on a survey on the consumption of forty-three products and services by the families of sixty-eight employees of the Santiago office. In 1970, the office was renamed Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE).  In the following decades, the variety of national statistics expanded, and population, housing, agricultural, and manufacturing censuses were conducted, which entailed extensive cartography that detailed city blocks and populated localities in rural areas. Today, this cartography is one of INE’s greatest assets. Currently, INE is the governing body of the national statistical system (NSS), which integrates the main producers and users of statistical data. INE’s purpose is to coordinate and improve the relevance of statistical production, exchange views, and establish common standards. In February 2006, INE joined the Statistical Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as an observer, which demonstrated the institution's ongoing efforts to achieve high quality standards in its indicators.

Throughout Chile, nearly two thousand people work hard, day after day, to give a seal of quality to the public statistics produced by INE, which, together with its technical independence and the transparency of its procedures, constitute the three fundamental values of INE’s work. More than six-hundred surveyors travel throughout the national territory in search of data for processing, analysis, and dissemination by INE’s professionals and technical personnel. For this purpose, INE uses the most modern technologies and methodologies available, and it regularly incorporates international recommendations. From large logistical operations, such as the Population and Housing Census, to economic indicators, such as Employment and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), INE's information forms a robust basis for public policies and private projects. INE regularly disseminates more than seventy of its products. In addition to producing quality data, it is essential that INE provide data that is suitable for wide-ranging and intensive uses. For this reason, an important part of INE's effort is aimed at disseminating statistical information through its website, www.ine.cl, where tabulations, series, databases, publications, working documents, methodologies, and contact points can be accessed. In addition, INE has a strong commitment to contributing to social and economic research by providing access to the most important statistics for the academic community and national researchers. At the same time, there are documentation centers in all fifteen regions of the country, as well as specialized attention for the media.


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