INDEC headquarters in Buenos Aires | |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1968 |
Preceding agency |
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Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Employees | 3,941 (Dec 2023)[1] |
Agency executive |
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Parent agency | Ministry of Economy |
Website | indec.gob.ar |
The National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, mostly known for its acronym INDEC) is an Argentine decentralized public body that operates within the Ministry of Economy, which exercises the direction of all official statistical activities carried out in the country.
In February 2013, the International Monetary Fund censured Argentina for failing to report accurate inflation data. Political intervention[neutrality is disputed] in the INDEC figures ended, and the IMF declared in November 2016 that Argentine statistics were again in accordance with international standards.[3]