Population, National Accounts, Labour Force, Prices, Agriculture, etc. These units are responsible for the general preparation of data and are in charge of surveys, censuses and other data collection in the field. They maintain contact with users, find out their needs, and provide them with statistical data. They initiate new projects, define design, and choose topics to be investigated and the target populations, classifications, and tabulations. Then they prepare the results for publication.
Administrative units deal with personnel, budgets, etc.
The members of the Council are appointed by the Prime Minister on the recommendation of the institutions to be represented. The Council has set up several subcommittees and has dealt with such subjects as censuses, long-term programmes for various branches of statistics, confidentiality, the publications policy of the CBS, etc. A number of interdepartmental advisory committees in various statistical fields also have been set up, in addition to those operated by the Council, to seek cooperation and advice from users and academic researchers. The CBS is located administratively in the Prime Minister's Office, which indicates its central importance. Centralisation of data collection in the CBS carries the risk of separation of the producers and users of statistics.