It is an office independent of the country's government, whose main tasks are the collection, processing and dissemination of statistical data and the organization of elections in the Czech Republic and the population census.

The beginnings of the organized statistical service in Czechoslovakia date to 28 January 1919, when the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic approved the Act on the Statistical Service (No.

The main task of the office was the collection and publication of basic demographic, social and economic data on the development of Czechoslovak society.

In 1961, the State Statistical Office and the Central People's Control Commission were merged into the Central Office of State Control and Statistics.

[4] In addition to the headquarters, the office has a branch in every region of the Czech Republic (except for the Central Bohemian Region, whose branch is part of the headquarters in Prague).