Complex sentence: While maintaining the same basic functions in the collection, analysis, and publication and distribution of state statistics, including economic, social, and population statistics, this renaming amounted to a formal demotion of the status of the agency.
Split into simpler sentences: While maintaining the same basic functions in the collection, analysis, and publication and distribution of state statistics, including economic, social, and population statistics. This renaming amounted to a formal demotion of the status of the agency.