Organization Chart

National Director

Ricardo Vicuña Poblete - National Director

• Guide and direct the fulfillment and execution of all the functions and attributions of the Institute and, in general, resolve all matters of a technical, operational, and administrative nature, following a report from the respective Subdirectors, when appropriate.
• Authorize the Subdirectors, the Legal Counsel, and the Comptroller to sign "by order of the Director", such matters as the National Director may indicate.
• Enter into agreements with public, private, national, foreign, or international institutions on matters, studies, or work of interest to the Institute, regarding the rendering of services to these same entities or the improvement and training of personnel. All agreements referred to in this paragraph must have the consent of the National Statistical Commission.
• Preside over the sessions of the National Commission.
• Submit, annually, for the consideration of the National Commission, the National Plan of Statistical Compilation, which is to be approved by the President of the Republic.
• Propose to the President of the Republic for approval, before 15 December of each year, the permanent staff of the Institute and their remunerations, and the appointments of personnel, when appropriate.
• Assume the judicial and extrajudicial representation of the Institute. As judicial representative, the National Director will have the powers of Article 7 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
• Issue resolutions and instructions as necessary for the organization and the improved operation of the Institute.
• Determine the internal structure of the Institute, for which the National Director may create, modify, or suppress within the Institute all work units, as deemed appropriate. Resolutions in this regard must be well founded and contain the lines of dependence and functions that correspond to each unit. The appointment of the Heads of the different work units will be made by officials of a higher rank than those who work in them. Likewise, units that are at the same level will be performed by officials of similar rank. In all cases, the suitability to serve in the position will be determined by the National Director and will have the technical approval of the National Statistical Commission. Regional Offices will be created after a favorable report from the National Planning Office and the resolution for their creation, and the Provincial Offices will comply with the requirements contained in note 1 below.
• In general, ensure the faithful fulfillment of the functions of the Institute.
• Submit, for the consideration of the National Statistical Commission, the initiation, interruption, resumption, or transformation of continuous or periodic statistical series or the performance of special projects of statistical interest.

1. Submit the annual budget proposal to the National Statistical Commission for its approval.

Department of Institutional Audits

Carla Cristina Cáceres Maldonado - Head of the Department of Institutional Audits

• Prepare and implement the Institution's Annual Audit Plan, as well as extraordinary audits, in accordance with the regulations in this area and with institutional strategy.
• Execute audits and prepare the respective reports, according to established standards and in compliance with institutional and governmental requirements.
• Validate the plans prepared by the areas that must make commitments and take corrective or preventive actions, ensuring that they correct the issues indicated in the findings.
• Execute the follow-up of the plans of areas that made commitments related to the findings of the audit.
• Collaborate technically with the Comptroller General of the Republic in auditing matters, facilitating the preparation of responses to observations issued by the Comptroller.
• Participate as a reviewer, in the role of auditor, in the evaluation of compliance with the institutional collective performance agreement.
• Ensure compliance with the requests of external government agencies within the Department’s scope of action.

Cabinet

Claudia Paz Marro Freitte - Chief of Staff

• Advise the National Directorate on matters of strategic coordination.
• Endorse documents and administrative acts that require the signature of the National Director.
• Manage and evaluate key strategic decisions for the Institute and for the execution of the public functions entrusted to it.
• Articulate networks with organizations and actors to facilitate institutional management in all areas entrusted to the Chief of Staff by the National Director.
• Facilitate and coordinate political and administrative issues entrusted to the Chief of Staff by the National Director, including those related to Regional Directorates.
• Maintain a permanent relationship between the National Directorate and staff associations.
• Manage the coordination and requests of the Regional Directorates.

Department of Strategic Management

Nicolás Ignacio Rojas Hernández - Head of the Department of Strategic Management

• Formulate the strategies and plans of the Institution, safeguarding the faithful fulfillment of the institutional objectives and goals.
• Monitor the achievement of strategies and plans, supporting the follow-up of the plans, programs, and projects of the Institution.
• Monitor the achievement of the institutional commitments linked to institutional strategic definitions.
• Design, direct, and monitor the formulation of wide-ranging strategies and tactical plans of the Institution at a national level.
• Support the Institution in the strategic planning process and in the evaluation of the achievement and degree of compliance with strategies, plans, and programs.
• Support the formulation of strategic projects and monitor strategic and prioritized projects of the Institution.
• Provide tools with which the institution can adequately define, execute, track, and monitor institutional management.
• Maintain and manage the processes of strategic planning, management control, project management, process management, risk, and innovation at the institutional level.
• Establish institutional innovation processes and generate spaces for the formulation of development initiatives.
• Promote a process culture in the institution, ensuring adequate management and control of institutional risks.

Legal Division

Maria Gabriela Ilabaca Toledo - Legal Counsel

The Legal Counsel will ensure the legality of the Institute's activities and will have, in particular, the following powers and functions:

• Issue reports and opinions requested by the National Director, the Subdirectors, and the Comptroller.
• Maintain permanent information on the legal and regulatory provisions issued that have an impact on the statistical production process.
• Inform the Director about plans and initiatives that alter legislation in force or result in bills or regulatory norms, whenever they have an impact on the formulation or development of the National Plan of Statistical Compilation, on the operation of the Institute, or on the process of statistical production. Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory norms that govern the National Statistics Institute; identify the Institute’s resolutions when they do not comply with current legislation; and conduct legal studies on the progress of the Institute.
• Conduct studies, tasks, and projects requested by the Director in fulfillment of the objectives of the Institute.
• Sign “by order of the Director” matters indicated by the Director and, in general, all other functions entrusted to the Legal Counsel by the Director.

Institutional Cooperation Unit

Olga Marta Barquero Alpïzar - Head of the Institutional Cooperation Unit

• Promote and manage national and international cooperation.
• Design the institutional cooperation plan and determine the steps necessary for its fulfillment.
• Coordinate and monitor international participation in meetings, seminars, workshops, and internships.
• Manage the National Statistical Commission and demonstrate the results of its work.
• Contribute to knowledge management by disseminating documents of an international nature that are useful to the Institution's staff.
• Identify, propose, and coordinate alternatives for exchange, integration, collaboration, and cooperation.
• Manage and respond in a timely manner to information requests of international organizations, national statistical offices of other countries, and national public institutions.
• Direct the development of national and international cooperation projects, following up on those that have been approved.
• Translate documentation related to institutional statistical products, according to international commitments and strategic priorities.
• Coordinate and adequately manage the commitments established in the country's international agreements on statistical matters.
• Ensure institutional participation in the National Council for the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ensure compliance with the functions assigned to INE in its role as technical advisor.
• Manage the development and signing of interagency and international collaboration agreements.

Institutional Communications Unit

María Alejandra Peña Zepeda - Head of the Institutional Communications Unit

• Manage communications and media relations.
• Design and manage institutional communications, including strategic definitions and environment.
• Design and disseminate communications policies.
• Manage the relationship and communication with the media.
• Design the institutional communications plan.
• Design, manage, and implement the monitoring of official communication channels of the Institution.
• Safeguard the protocols and institutional editorial policy of the products disseminated by the Institution.
• Design and develop the content of the Institution's social media.
• Manage social media.
• Ensure the alignment of the regional directorates with the communication strategy.
• Manage internal and external dialogue and cooperation, ensuring the effectiveness of the entire communication process.
• Contribute to the development of the internal communications of the Institute.

Department of Statistical Analysis

Cristian Ignacio Aguilera Vega - Head of the Department of Statistical Analysis

• Prepare and implement the Institution's Annual Review Plan for statistical processes.
• Prepare the review processes directly requested by the National Director.
• Execute analyses and prepare the respective reports according to the established standards and in compliance with international quality standards and institutional requirements in statistical matters.
• Accompany and validate plans for corrective and preventive actions according to findings.
• Establish the degree of implementation of preventive and corrective measures resulting from the institutional statistical review.

Transparency and Public Outreach Unit

Tamara Andrea Arroyo Thoms - Head of the Transparency and Public Outreach Unit

• Design a plan for strengthening and consolidating the public image.
• Coordinate, articulate, and guide information needs of users and the general public.
• Define policies related to user assistance.
• Establish and maintain a working model for user assistance with channels for information requests at the national level.
• Receive, analyze, channel, and answer public requests for information as well as other requests that enter through user-assistance centers.
• Administer, manage, and maintain the management model of user satisfaction.
• Develop and update the general guidelines for public participation and provide administrative measures to ensure the effectiveness of participation mechanisms.
• Implement the mechanisms of public participation, instruments, and procedures included in the Institution’s general standard for public participation.
• Lead and manage the obligations set forth in Law No. 20.285 on active transparency, access to public information, and the lobbying law.
• Contribute to the management of the relationship with respondents through timely and effective referral.
• Provide inputs to the business areas for strengthening the relationship with respondents.
• Manage and ensure availability to the public of the institutional statistical archives.

Department of Information Security

Leandra Romanet Soto Valenzuela - Head of the Department of Information Security

• Lead the design and implementation of policies and controls, evaluating and reporting risks related to information security.
• Advise, lead, manage, and deliver guidance and actions in matters of the information security system in order to safeguard the Institution's information assets.
• Improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the information security system of the Institution by enhancing the dissemination of its operations and benefits.
• Manage the implementation, execution, maintenance, and improvement of the information security system and the processes related to such matters.
• Safeguard the Institution's cybersecurity.

Technical Subdirectorate

Leonardo Jaime González Allendes - Technical Subdirector

• Study and analyze the statistics and indices of the Institute and of other national producers of statistics.
• Study the technical modifications required for the modernization of statistics produced by the Institute.
• Suggest to the National Director the creation of new indices and statistics, the enumeration of censuses, and collection of sample surveys, according to need and opportunity.
• Create the National Plan of Statistical Compilation within the deadlines stipulated by the Director.
• Analyze and apply, when deemed appropriate, the standards recommended by international organizations, prepare reports that they request, and respond to their inquiries.
• Study the coordination of the collection, classification, and publication of statistics of fiscal and semi-fiscal agencies and State enterprises, and inform the Technical Advisory Committee of the findings so that it may propose to the National Commission, through the Director, the principles, standards, and directives to be applied.
• Endorse the statistical data compiled by the aforementioned organizations, so that the Institute may grant them official status.
• Respond to statistical inquiries sent to the Institute.
• Execute the functions indicated in letters g, h, j, and k, of article 2, of DFL. 313, of 1960.
• Guide and direct the operation of all the Technical Subdirectorate’s work units through which the aforementioned functions are to be carried out, without prejudice to the administrative control exercised over them by the Administrative Subdirectorate.
• Evaluate and standardize the procedures in all the work of the Institute regarding technical matters of the Technical Subdirector’s competence.
• Sign "by order of the Director" matters indicated by the National Director and fulfill all other functions entrusted to the Technical Subdirector by the National Director.

Department of Demographic and Social Statistics

Hector Alejandro Henríquez Rodríguez - Head of the Department of Demographic and Social Statistics

• Lead the design, planning, and testing of the production processes of social and demographic statistics through surveys, administrative records, and other relevant forms of collection.
• Execute the processes of design and planning, processing, analysis, and dissemination of the results of the production of social statistics, ensuring compliance with the principles and quality standards defined at the institutional level.
• Lead updates, new designs, and continuous improvements of the production processes of demographic and vital statistics, ensuring the detection and evaluation of users' information needs.
• Coordinate and implement technical mechanisms for the homologation of processes led by the department.
• Coordinate and implement mechanisms for the cooperation and exchange of good practices among the subdepartments of the department.
• Develop new initiatives, studies, and research for improving and expanding social-statistics programs related to socioeconomics, demographics, living conditions, gender, ethnicities, Afro-descent, and tribal affiliation, among other programs.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of social statistics and establish and implement their quality criteria.
• Advise and provide technical support to other units of the Institute in their areas.
• Coordinate with the public and private networks that produce and use statistics in these areas.

Department of Economic Statistics

Ismael Alejandro Andrade Díaz - Head of the Department of Economic Statistics

• Lead the design, planning, and testing of production processes of economic statistics through censuses, surveys, administrative records, and other relevant forms of collection.
• Execute the processes of design, planning, processing, analysis, and dissemination of the results of production of economic statistics, ensuring compliance with the principles and quality standards defined at the institutional level.
• Lead updates, new designs, and continuous improvements of the production processes of economic statistics, ensuring the detection and evaluation of information users' needs.
• Coordinate and implement technical mechanisms for the homologation of processes led by the department.
• Coordinate and implement mechanisms for the cooperation and exchange of good practices among the subdepartments of the department.
• Develop new initiatives, studies, and research for improving and expanding economic-statistics programs in the areas of trade and services, industries, and censuses, as well as in agricultural, environmental, and business statistics, among other programs.
• Support the work of the technical-economic evaluation mechanisms of the methodologies and economic indicators developed by the Institute, both nationally and regionally.
• Support the Institute's regional directorates in technical-economic matters, and define, develop, implement, and publish statistical products with territorial disaggregation.
• Advise and provide technical support to other units of the Institute in their areas.
• Coordinate with the public and private networks that produce and use statistics in these areas.

Department of Price Statistics

Cristian Copaja Espina - Head of the Department of Price Statistics

• Lead the design, planning, and testing of the production processes of price statistics through price observations, surveys, administrative records, or other relevant collection.
• Execute the processes of design and planning, processing, analysis, and dissemination of the production results of price statistics, ensuring compliance with the principles and quality standards defined at the institutional level.
• Lead updates, new designs, and continuous improvements of the production processes of price statistics, ensuring the detection and evaluation of information users' needs.
• Coordinate and implement technical mechanisms for the homologation of processes led by the department.
• Coordinate and implement mechanisms for the cooperation and exchange of good practices among the subdepartments of the department.
• Develop new initiatives, studies, and research for improving and expanding statistical price programs in the areas of consumer price indices, producer price indices, transportation costs, and other complementary price statistics.
• Collaborate in the formulation and development of institutional projects that require the elaboration, study, or dissemination of statistical-price products.
• Advise and provide technical support to other units of the Institute in their areas.
• Coordinate with the public and private networks that produce and use statistics in these areas.

Department of Labour Statistics

David Patricio Niculcar Castillo - Head of the Department of Labour Statistics

• Lead the design, planning, and testing of production processes of labour statistics through censuses, surveys, administrative records, and other relevant forms of collection.
• Execute the processes of design and planning, processing, analysis, and dissemination of the production results of labour statistics, ensuring compliance with the principles and quality standards defined at the institutional level.
• Lead the updates, new designs, and continuous improvements of the production processes of labour statistics, ensuring the detection and evaluation of information users' needs.
• Coordinate and implement technical mechanisms for the homologation of processes led by the department.
• Coordinate and implement mechanisms for the cooperation and exchange of good practices among the subdepartments of the department.
• Develop new initiatives, studies, and research aimed at improving and expanding statistical programs in the areas of work inside and outside of employment, income from employment and other sources, labour conditions and relations, entrepreneurship, and social protection, among other programs.
• Advise and provide technical support to other units of the Institute in matters of labour statistics.
• Coordinate with the public and private networks that produce and use labour statistics.

Operations Subdirectorate

Daniela Moraga Farías - Operations Subdirector

• Conduct the process of collection and technical elaboration of continuous official statistics.
• Conduct the official censuses, in accordance with international recommendations.
• Periodically conduct surveys to update the bases of the different indices, especially the cost-of-living indices.
• Collect the pertinent information and compile the inventory of the Nation's Economic Potential.
• Prepare a register of natural or legal persons that constitutes a "Source of Statistical Information".
• Execute the Institute's Annual Work Plan.
• Guide and direct the performance of the functions of all work units related to the collection and compilation of continuous statistics and enumeration of censuses. These units are under the Operations Subdirectorate, as are the Regional and Provincial Offices, without prejudice to the administrative supervision that will be exercised over them by the Administrative Subdirectorate; and
• Sign "by order of the Director" matters indicated by the National Director and fulfill all other functions entrusted to the Operations Subdirector by the National Director.

Department for the Implementation of Strategic Operations

Alejandra Paz García Mozo - Head of the Department for the Implementation of Strategic Operations

• Construct statistical collection instruments.
• Configure first- and second-level validation models of computer and technological instruments used in data collection.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of construction and data-collection processes.
• Establish and improve the dissemination components, defining the publication formats of statistical products.
• Set up the necessary workflows between collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination systems with those in charge of these processes.
• Perform the necessary technical and methodological tests for the production system, verifying the correct configuration and interaction of the various products.
• Execute and supervise pilot and field tests of established processes.
• Prepare all instruments, equipment, and resources for the execution of data collection for the various statistical products.

Department of Operations for Social Statistics

Rodrigo Armando Machuca Mendez - Head of the Department of Operations for Social Statistics

• Lead the data collection processes for the production of official household statistics of the Institution, according to the designs, methodological standards, and good practices of the teams of the Technical Subdirectorate and the Department of Methodologies and Statistical Innovation.
• Coordinate, review, direct, supervise, and verify the statistical production of the teams of household statistics.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of the units of the department.
• Coordinate with the public and private networks that produce and use labour, household, demographic, and vital statistics, and create initiatives that improve interaction with respondents.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of household data collection processes and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and quality in accordance with the process methodology.
• Continually monitor the indicators of the household data collection process to identify errors and deviations and implement action plans to correct them.
• Identify critical risks of household-data collection processes and implement plans to mitigate them according to the institutional risk-management methodology.
• Develop and disseminate the annual planning of the Department according to the institutional vision and strategy.
• Instruct and monitor the implementation of process improvements designed for data collection processes.
• Collaborate in updating the sampling frame of dwellings by providing updated information to the statistical infrastructure team.
• Ensure that data collection meets established technical criteria by a review and verification of the data, minimizing gaps and redundancies for the completion of the collection process.

Department of Operations for Economic and Price Statistics

Felipe Andres Lopez Borges - Head of the Department of Operations for Economic and Price Statistics

• Lead the data collection processes for the production of official economic statistics of the Institution, according to the designs, methodological standards, and good practices of the teams of the Technical Subdirectorate and the Department of Methodologies and Statistical Innovation.
• Coordinate, review, direct, supervise, and verify the statistical production of the teams of economic and price statistics.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of the units of the department.
• Coordinate with the public and private networks that produce and use economic statistics, and create initiatives that improve interaction with respondents.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of the processes of household data collection and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency and quality in accordance with the process methodology.
• Continually monitor the indicators of the process of economic and price data collection to identify errors and deviations and implement action plans to correct them.
• Identify critical risks of the processes of economic and price collection and implement plans to mitigate them according to the institutional risk-management methodology.
• Develop and disseminate the annual planning of the Department according to the institutional vision and strategy.
• Instruct and monitor the implementation of process improvements designed for data collection processes.
• Collaborate in updating the base year change of the department's products.
• Ensure that data collection meets established technical criteria by a review and verification of the data, minimizing gaps and redundancies for the completion of the collection process.

Department of Methodologies and Statistical Innovation

Denisse Elizabeth López Arenas - Head of the Department of Methodologies and Statistical Innovation

• Lead the fulfillment of quality standards and good practices in the Institution through the systematization and publication of quality standards, the auditing of production processes, and the incorporation of updated nomenclatures.
• Create guidelines for the construction and updating of sampling frames and directories, generating supervision and control processes for these products.
• Update the methodology and statistical production standards with respect to the work carried out by INE teams, incorporating the suggestions of international organizations and best practices.
• Promote research and innovation in the field of statistical methodologies, according to institutional priorities and needs.
• Coordinate and implement technical mechanisms for the homologation of processes led by the department.
• Initiate and lead the implementation of new statistical analysis methodologies, according to institutional needs and international standards, providing technical support and advice to teams that require further development of specialized statistical analysis methods.
• Maintain and promote the updating of nomenclatures and economic and social classifications used by the Institution.
• Generate conditions and technical research with the Institution's teams to increase the production of statistics based on administrative records.
• Adapt international standards and methodologies through research and review of technical standards, methods, management, and documentation of statistical processes.
• Publish statistical policies, guidelines, and normative documents, in order to promote and maintain the Institution's statistical excellence.
• Coordinate the national statistical system together with the Technical Subdirectorate.
• Coordinate and plan the evaluation, feedback, and statistical audits defined for the Institution.
• Evaluate the quality of the Institution's statistical production, providing feedback to producers to ensure compliance with national and international production standards.
• Advise and provide technical support to other units of the Institute in matters related to their specialty.
• Coordinate with the national statistical system through public and private networks of statistical production in matters related to their specialty in order to assist in their continuous improvement.

Subdepartment of Quality and Standards

Rodrigo Antonio Morales Soto - Head of the Subdepartment of Quality and Standards

• Ensure the implementation and compliance with standards and methodological norms approved by the committee for statistical production processes.
• Adapt and harmonize standards for the publication of metadata associated with statistical production processes.
• Adapt international standards and methodologies through research and review of technical standards, methods, management, and documentation of statistical processes.
• Analyze, update, develop, and adapt economic and social classifications, according to international standards and developments.
• Regulate and promote the use of economic and social classifications for statistical purposes at the national level.
• Certify classifications in the areas of economic and social statistics according to institutional and international standards.
• Ensure the functioning of the committee for quality by submitting proposals regarding the definition of standards and methodological norms to be adhered to in the statistical production processes.
• Ensure the measurement and analysis of compliance with quality indicators as defined by the Institution for the various statistical products.
• Establish the degree of implementation of preventive and corrective measures resulting from the institutional evaluations.
• Ensure compliance with pre-established internal control processes and mechanisms through continuous qualitative and quantitative evaluations of statistical production processes.
• Provide advice to the Institution's teams on the different statistical production processes for the implementation of good practices and quality standards, thus contributing to the process of continuous improvement.
• Lead product evaluations and feedback on a recurring basis, generating proposals for improvement.
• Lead research and technical analysis complementary to the research and analysis of each department, generating guidelines at the national level.
• Contribute to the design and elaboration of process maps for each production process, establishing a starting point for contrasting the desirable actions and relationships with what has actually been completed.

Subdepartment of Frame and Sampling Design

Iván Touron Romero - Head of the Subdepartment of Frame and Sampling Design

• Generate efficient strategies for the construction of master sampling frames, which are used for the selection of units from which INE's samples are drawn. Selection units may be dwellings, companies and their establishments, agricultural production units, or any other statistical unit of interest.
• Establish protocols for the regular updating of the master sampling frames managed by the Institution.
• Propose and lead the implementation of methodologies for the updating of the master sampling frames managed by the Institution, whether they are geographical areas, housing directories, agricultural production units, or any other statistical unit of interest, through the use of censuses, surveys, administrative records, or any other relevant source of information.
• Develop studies to measure the effects of updating the master sampling frames on the estimates of the Institution’s main indicators.
• Lead the definition and correct implementation of the different nomenclatures necessary for the administration of the master sampling frames managed by the Institution.
• Build and manage sampling frames according to the particular needs of the statistical products that are managed by the Institution, ensuring the greatest possible coverage of the target population.
• Develop and implement methodological strategies for efficient sampling according to the accuracy and coverage requirements of each statistical product managed by the Institution.
• Implement methodologies for calculating the expansion factors of the units that make up the samples of the Institution's statistical products, including the information available from the sampling frame, field work, and other sources of information.
• Ensure the correct documentation of the methodologies used in the department's statistical processes.
• Develop new methodologies for sampling design and estimation to meet emerging needs of new statistical products.

Subdepartment of Statistical Research

José Ignacio Bustos Melo - Head of the Subdepartment of Statistical Research (acting)

• Promote research in the field of statistics, according to institutional priorities and needs.
• Maintain a constant search for the best practices for the production of official statistics, according to institutional needs, national or international experiences, and their possible implementation in the Institute.
• Initiate and lead the implementation of new statistical analysis methodologies, according to the needs of the Institution and to international standards, providing technical support and advice to teams that require further development of specialized statistical analysis methods.
• Promote an adequate coordination of the Institution's technical teams, strengthening relationships that allow for the detection of needs of continuous improvement in the area of statistical production.
• Contribute to the standardization of methodologies for the generation of quality indicators by the Institution's producers of statistical information.
• Conduct studies for approximating the effects that the proposed methodological changes would have on the Institution's products.
• Monitor methodologies and their possible impact on statistical products, and promote their dissemination within the Institute, facilitating the exchange of good practices among work teams.
• Promote the publication of research papers based on emerging needs to improve the production of official statistics for their use in public policy.

Department of Statistical Infrastructure

Jorge Andrés Urrutia Sepúlveda - Head of the Department of Statistical Infrastructure

• Coordinate with public and private networks of information creation to improve the production of administrative records for statistical use, applying the guidelines generated by the Department of Methodologies and Statistical Innovation.
• Maintain continuous updating of the Institutional Geostatistical Framework.
• Develop cartographic products and services for the censuses, surveys, and territorial statistics, according to internal and external production needs of the Institution.
• Manage data exchange and transfer agreements.
• Design and control the management of the Institute's data assets.
• Define the set of rules, policies, procedures, standards, relationships, systems, and processes for the management and administration of data assets.
• Guide and direct the fulfillment of the functions of all the work units of the department so that they perform their tasks under institutional and international standards of quality and good practices.
• Advise and provide technical support to other units of the Institute in matters related to their specialty.
• Coordinate with the national statistical system through public and private networks of statistical production in matters related to their specialty in order to assist in their continuous improvement.

Geography and Cartographic Updating Unit

Raúl René Ponce Corona - Head of the Geography and Cartographic Updating Unit

• Define the set of rules, policies, procedures, standards, relationships, systems, and processes for the management and administration of data assets of the Institution.
• Generate and propose user-friendly tools for the territorial dissemination of the Institution's statistical information in order to support municipalities, state institutions, social organizations, and the public.
• Maintain the continual cartographic updating of the geographical structure at different levels of disaggregation on a national scale, as a basis for surveys, censuses, and territorial indicators.
• Generate analog and digital cartographic data and web geo services for the field work of household surveys, directories of economic establishments, censuses of population and housing, and censuses of agriculture.
• Carry out continual cartographic updating, including the optimization of production and information-gathering processes by linking with administrative records, remote sensing, collaborative inputs, and decentralized work in regions.
• Produce geostatistical analyses that complement and add value to the existing statistical information of the Institution.
• Design, develop, and update territorial indicators for the System of Urban Development Indicators and Standards.
• Establish the geographical information standards necessary for the interoperability of information at the institutional level of the Institute and throughout the national statistical system.
• Coordinate with the national statistical system through public and private networks of statistical production in matters related to their specialty in order to assist in their continuous improvement.

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Data Governance Unit

Ignacio Fabian Agloni Jorquera - Head of the Data Governance Unit

• Systematize administrative information needs for statistical production, as identified by the Institution's statistical production units.
• Convene and manage internal coordination mechanisms on needs for administrative information and for information about collection as identified by INE's statistical producers.
• Plan and manage the collection of administrative records in order to meet statistical needs of administrative information, to fulfill methodological and statistical requirements, and to reduce the statistical burden on respondents.
• Exclusively manage administrative records nominated under statistical secrecy that have been collected by the Institution, following the information security protocols developed by the unit.
• Lead the continual development, implementation, and management of the Institution's Integrated Statistical System of Records and Metadata for the management of administrative records.
• Transform and integrate administrative records and metadata to convert them into statistical records and metadata useful for statistical production, assigning them an internal institutional identification.
• Manage the creation and development of statistical metadata associated with statistical records and their processing, ensuring their storage in the Integrated Statistical System of Records and Metadata in order to make this information available to the Institution's production units.
• Design and control the management of the Institute's data assets.
• Define the set of rules, policies, procedures, standards, relationships, systems, and processes for the management of data assets.
• Define the necessary guidelines to ensure the quality of data and effective data management.
• Manage data assets available at the Institute so that they can be used to improve its statistics.
• Coordinate with the national statistical system through public and private networks of statistical production in matters related to their specialty in order to assist in their continuous improvement.

Subdepartment of Master Sampling Frames

Sergio Andrés Fontalva Urrutia - Head of the Subdepartment of Master Sampling Frames

• Manage the master sampling frames according to the methodology defined by the Subdepartment of Frame and Sampling Design.
• Update the master sampling frames according to the methodology defined by the Subdepartment of Frame and Sampling Design using available information, including censuses, surveys, administrative records, and other relevant sources of information.
• Identify, study, and obtain administrative records in order to improve the statistical quality of the master sampling frames.
• Provide feedback for the maintenance of master sampling frames using administrative records and information from statistical products.
• Design and define the information for demographic analysis.
• Represent, collaborate, and participate in internal and external working groups related to the development of master sampling frames.
• Coordinate with the national statistical system through public and private networks of statistical production in matters related to their specialty in order to assist in their continuous improvement.

Information Technology Subdirectorate

Alberto Alejandro Lagos Reddersen - Information Technology Subdirector

• Provide support, operation, maintenance, and administration of the technological and computer services required by the Institution for the fulfillment of its strategic objectives.
• Conduct studies on technological advances that can be applied to the Institution to improve the efficiency of its processes and the quality of its products.
• Formulate and implement policies, plans, and procedures associated with the acquisition and use of technology.
• Respond to the needs and requests of users, software developments, and incorporation of new technologies, adhering to current policies, standards, and regulations without jeopardizing the operational continuity of platforms.
• Ensure the proper functioning and availability of technological infrastructure, administering network resources, communication equipment, computers, servers, and databases of the Institution, in accordance with technical and human resources.
• Define the budgetary requests and generate the technical specifications for the execution of the information-technology procurement plan.

Department of Projects and Development

Osvaldo Cornejo Barra - Head of the Department of Projects and Development

• Manage requests associated with projects and evolving maintenance, ensuring the correct allocation of resources and time according to the existing capabilities.
• Acquire, implement, develop, maintain, and support computer systems that meet the needs of the Institution.
• Ensure integration between systems and interoperability with other institutions, in accordance with the defined reference architecture.
• Execute projects associated with the incorporation of software technologies in support of the Institutional processes.
• Support feasibility assessments and teams for the design of solutions.
• Provide, update, and improve the area's methodologies in software development and project management.
• Operate the project management of the Subdirectorate

Department of Operational Continuity

Alejandro Alberto Freraut Caceres - Head of the Department of Operational Continuity

• Ensure the correct operation, security, and availability of the technological platform that supports the different processes of the Institution in the areas of communications, servers, and base software.
• Define services in the area of technological infrastructure to meet the needs and standard requirements of the Institution.
• Provide services in the area of technological infrastructure to meet the needs and standard requirements of the Institution.
• Evaluate new technologies in the field of technological infrastructure, telecommunications, databases, and security platforms.
• Execute continuous improvement projects in the area of information technology.
• Respond to the different requests arising from the development of software and the incorporation of new technological platforms, complying with current policies, standards, and regulations.

Department of Platform Services

Patricio Rodrigo Tello Aróstica - Head of the Department of Platform Services

• Maintain a portfolio of services for users and institutions with service levels established in accordance with the needs of INE.
• Provide users with the necessary technological tools to carry out their work on a continuous basis, according to their profile and availability.
• Update the availability and capacity indicators of the productive services managed by the Subdirectorate, coordinating preventive and corrective actions based on these indicators.
• Supervise, evaluate, and assess compliance with the performance and needs of IT services, generating metrics in a systematic and planned manner while providing ongoing feedback for the different areas of the Institution.
• Ensure the quality of productive services in accordance with institutional needs.
• Generate continuous improvement plans for productive services.
• Administer external contracts for the provision of services.

Administrative Subdirectorate

Juan Ignacio Bravo Álvarez - Administrative Subdirector

• Manage personnel and execute all the corresponding administrative procedures.
• Recruit, select, and train administrative personnel.
• Prepare and coordinate personnel training and development programs.
• Keep track of the attendance and punctuality of all the Institute's staff.
• Draft resolutions on appointments, promotions, substitutions, transfers, administrative sanctions, family allowances, unpaid leave, leaves of absence, holidays, secondments, etc.
• Maintain personnel records and files.
• Oversee, maintain, operate, conserve, and control the proper and legitimate use of the goods that constitute the assets of the Institute.
• Propose acquisitions and distribute the materials and elements necessary for the development of the Institution's activities throughout the country.
• Maintain and repair the Institute's vehicles, monitor their proper use, and transport staff and materials.
• Receive, register, distribute, and dispatch correspondence received or issued by the Institute.
• Organize, direct, and guide the welfare functions of the Institute.
• Prepare the terms of permanent staff and their remunerations, which must be submitted before 15 December each year for the approval of the President of the Republic.
• Propose to the Director the execution of agreements deemed necessary for the improvement and training of personnel and the granting of scholarships for this purpose.
• Propose to the Director the policies and goals of the administrative area and the needs of the Institute's personnel.
• Guide and direct the operation of the Administrative Subdirectorate's work units that execute the functions listed above.
• Apply legislation and regulations related to personnel and instruct subordinates in their application.

Department of Administration and Finance

Rodrigo Antonio Ramírez Acuña - Head of the Department of Administration and Finance

• Monitor the proper use of the institutional budget.
• Manage correctly and efficiently the processes related to administration and finance.
• Prepare the draft of the Institute's annual budget, manage its processing, and supervise its correct execution.
• Manage the institutional financial accounting system.
• Manage the institutional resources, both movable and immovable property, as well as the assets and liabilities of the Institution.
• Maintain and update the State's Financial Management System.
• Analyze and monitor institutional budgetary and financial-accounting information.
• Periodically report to the Institute's higher authorities on the financial situation of the Institute.
• Propose corrective actions for financial deviations detected.
• Ensure the correct and periodic updating of the institution's accounting records.
• Execute the bidding processes, contracts, and purchases required to meet the objectives of the Institute.
• Provide institutional goods and services, maintaining the proper functioning of infrastructure resources.
• Ensure the correct administration and control of documents and institutional administrative acts.
• Respond to annual audits and commitment control in a correct and timely manner.

Department for the Management and Development of Personnel

Vilma Javiera Wagner Villagrán - Head of the Department for the Management and Development of Personnel

• Plan, organize, direct, and control the policies that promote the integral management of the movement of persons, seeking well-being of staff and the development of the Institution.
• Provide the Institution and its staff with modern and automated processes to keep all information related to the work life cycle updated and online.
• Define and manage the internal communication strategy of the Institution, which is oriented to the areas of management and development of persons.
• Maintain updated and online all information regarding the work life cycle of the persons working at INE.
• Formulate indicators for monitoring and providing information to the management team on processes of persons and the results of work-environment measurements, performance evaluations, and the use of welfare benefits, among other measurements.

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