It is an autonomous organization responsible for overall coordination of statistical services of the General State Administration in monitoring, control and supervision of technical procedures.

[2] The so-then Prime Minister Narváez approved a decree creating this body and ordering that people with recognized ability in this matter were part of it.

From 29 October 2019 until eights days later, INE will ascertain mobile phone movements to know the usual shifts to improve his services.

This façade is the work of the sculptor José María Cruz Novillo and has been called the Decaphonic Diaphragm of Digits.

[6] Spain's Statistical Yearbook (in Spanish, Anuario Estadístico de España) is published annually since 1943.