President Milanović Receives Employees of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics
The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović received today a delegation from the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, which is marking 150 years of Croatian statistics. The story about official statistics began in 1875 when Ban Ivan Mažuranić founded the office of statistics. During its history, the Bureau changed its name a number of times – from “Institute of Statistics and Records”, to the “Institute of Statistics” and the “Republic Institute of Statistics”, and the current name “Croatian Bureau of Statistics”, which it bears since 1992.
At the meeting, the representatives of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, led by its Director General Lidija Brković, acquainted President Milanović with the activity of this institution which is the main carrier, disseminator and coordinator of the system of official statistics of the Republic of Croatia, and the main representative of the national statistical system before European and international authorities responsible for statistics.
In this sense, they noted their cooperation with the European Statistical System, which was founded to ensure comparable statistics at EU level. It is a system that represents a partnership between Eurostat (European statistical system), national statistical offices responsible for the development, production and dissemination of European statistics in each Member State.
Attending the meeting in the Office of the President of the Republic apart from Director General, Lidija Brković and her deputy, Linda Kasalo Malić, were secretaries, heads of sectors and departments as well as advisers of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics: Ivana Aljinović, Andrea Galić Nagyszombaty, Milenka Primorac Čačić, Suzana Šamec, Marcela Gracin Fagač, Nada Pejić, Tomislav Cviljak, Marija Kamenski, Marija Miri, Vanja Mastelić, Branka Ostrman, Janko Kraševac and Silvija Hasanec Matanović.
Alongside President Milanović was the Special Adviser to the President for the Economy Velibor Mačkić.
PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia / Ana Marija Katić