Documents and legal acts
The acts that govern official statistics in the Zone, and the Office's own orders on methods and forms.
On the forms of the census of business entities (TSO-26 and the census slip)
Approves the four-page questionnaire, the census slip and the enumerator's identity card. The questionnaire is also on e-irad.org as form TSO-26.
On the census of business entities of the Irad Special Economic Zone
Orders the first census of every company, sole trader, farm, workshop and market stall, 15 October to 30 November 2026, and makes the census slip a condition of any Register of Firms extract until the census ends. Full text on iradgov.org.
Release calendar for 2025
Consumer prices around the 12th of each month; Wages and Incomes in the middle of the second month after each quarter; the GDP estimate for 2024 by 30 June; health, education and tourism statistics in the second half of the year.
On the consumer price index: basket and weights from January 2024
Brings the basket to 402 goods and services and takes the weights from the 2022–23 household survey. Mobile data and bottled water join the basket; video cassettes and photographic film leave it.
On the publication of the results of the 2018 census
Approves the main tables for printing (run 500) and the programme of detailed volumes on housing, migration and the labour force for 2019–20.
Population Census Act
Provides for a population census at least every ten years, on a census night fixed by executive directive; the 2018 census was held under it (census night 13–14 October 2018).
Official Statistics Act
Establishes the Office as the body for official statistics, binds every employer and public body to report on the approved forms, and makes individual answers confidential: they may be used for statistics only and are not given to the tax service, the courts or any other body. Amended 2009 (Economy) and 2017.