Functions

After the promulgation of General Statistical act 1975, the functions of all the Provincial Bureau of Statistics were standardized and made identical. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bureau of Statistics was assigned the under mentioned functions:

To build up a sound and effective Provincial Statistical Programme and keep it under constant review to meet the Provincial requirement within the framework of national statistical system.
To review, coordinate and clear statistical development and budgetary proposal of Provincial Statistical Cells.
To adopt and follow National statistical standard and procedure in collection, tabulation and presentation of various statistical series.
To identify and eliminate duplication in Provincial Statistics.
To formulate Provincial Policies regarding adoption of national recommendations for collection of statistics.
To act as a liaison between Federal & Provincial Government on statistical matters and to serve as a secretariat for Provincial Statistical Council.
To extend technical guidance and assistance to other Provincial statistical cells as and when required with reference to their technical problems in designing , conducting censuses and surveys, processing of data and preparing their reports.
To prepare basic Socio-economic indicators of the province.
To Prepare and issue statistical publication to disseminate statistical information.
To prepare and maintain up to date frame for conducting census and surveys.
To act as Provincial Electronic Data Processing Agency for Various provincial departments.