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Statistics Law (2015)

Country/Territory
Latvia
Document type
Legislation
Date
2015
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Latvijas Vēstnesis, 118, 18.06.2015.
Subject
Agricultural & rural development
Keyword
Data collection/reporting Research Business/industry/corporations Governance Classification/declassification Agricultural development
Geographical area
Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe
Abstract

This Law provides for official statistics in Latvia. Its purpose is to provide statistics on economic, demographic and social phenomena and processes taking place in the public, and also on the environment. Among others, the Law provides for censuses. It defines census as a set of activities carried out in a given period of time aimed at collecting data on statistical units included in the census programme. The following censuses are conducted in Latvia: population census; housing census; and agricultural census.

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Website
likumi.lv