The organization was previously under the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning as a department and was called Central Statistics Office.
The Statistics Act 2009 authorizes the Statistician General to have access to records (administrative data, financial, geographic information etc.)
Data collection is the process of gathering data for purposes of measuring information on variables of interest in an established systematic fashion that enables one to answer stated research question, test hypothesis and evaluate outcomes.
The data also is used for informed decision making in various government, private and individual activities such as: The following censuses and surveys have been conducted by Statistics Botswana.
Annual Inflation Rate 2011 to 2021[14] The statistical outputs released include microdata sets, survey reports, stats briefs and many others.