The Statistical Office in Gdansk is one of 16 statistical offices - public statistics local units subordinated to the Central Statistical Office in Warsaw. The office acts on the base of:

• law dated 29th June 1995 on public statistics (Journal of Laws from 2016, item 1068),
• instruction No. 19 of the President of the CSO dated  5th Dectember 2012 on detailed scale of duties and organization of SO in Gdańsk (CSO Office Journal from 2012 item 58, from 2014 item 43, from 2015 item 19),
• law dated 21st November 2008 on civil service (Journal of Laws from 2017, item 1889),
• Organization Statute of the Statistical Office in Gdansk (Annex to the instruction of Director of the SO in Gdansk dated 16 January 2018).

THE OFFICE PERFORMS THE FOLLOWING TASKS:

• Organizes, conducts and edits statistical surveys on the territory of Pomorskie voivodship according to the programme of statistical surveys and CSO directives, including mass surveys (national censuses, agricultural censuses, etc.),

• Undertakes to conduct surveys in cooperation with government administration in Pomorskie voivodship, as well as other individual surveys not settled by the programme,

• Disseminates the results of surveys,

• Administers country official registers of the national economy entities and territorial division,

• Administers the information infrastructure of public statistics services in Pomorskie voivodship,

• Monitors the need for information and statistical analysis,

• Takes part in works in the field of methodology and organization of education and selected aspects of maritime economy,

• Supplies other statistical offices with local data on Pomorskie voivodship,

• Participates in international cooperation in the field  of Euroregions` statistics,

• Popularizes statistical knowledge.