The Statistical Office in Szczecin constitutes a unit of official statistics services supervised by the President of the Central Statistical Office and functions on the basis of:

      ● the Act of 29 June 1995 on Official Statistics  (Journal of Laws No 88, item 439 as amended),
      ● the Statute of the Office conferred by the Regulation No 2 of the President of the Central Statistical Office of 28 January 2010  (Official Journal of the Central Statistical Office of 2010, No 1, item 2),
      ● the Act of 21 November 2008 on Civil Service (Journal of Laws No 227, item 1505)
      ● Organisational Regulations of the Office (appendix No 1 to the internal regulation of the Director of the Statistical Office in Szczecin of 1 March 2010).
Pursuant to the above mentioned documents, the main tasks of the Statistical Office in Szczecin include: 
      ● collecting, gathering, storing and compiling data for statistical surveys conducted by the President of the Central Statistical Office,
      ● organising and conducting statistical surveys, including national censuses,
      ● conducting analyses and aggregate studies of data and statistical information from surveys,  
      ● announcing and disseminating statistical information obtained in official statistics surveys, including major figures and indicators, 
      ● popularising knowledge of statistics,
      ● conducting national registers:
                        REGON –national economy entities,
                        TERYT – territorial division of the country,
               in a part covering Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship,
      ● conducting specialist countrywide tasks for official statistics as a whole, i.a.:
          ￮ preparing methodological principles, conducting surveys, preparing publications and statistical analyses concerning:
              — science, technology, innovation and information society statistics,
              — maritime statistics,
              —  inland waterways transport statistics,
              —  transport and communications statistics, 
          ￮ conducting planning and programming works within the Office’s specialisation,
          ￮ participating in international co-operation within the Office’s specialisation,
          ￮ conducting works linked to using administrative sources of data.