hagstofais

Hagstofa Íslands, known in English as Statistics Iceland, is the national statistics office of Iceland. It is an independent government agency responsible for collecting, producing, and disseminating official statistics about the Icelandic economy, society, and environment. The agency aims to provide accurate, timely data to support decision making by policymakers, businesses, researchers, and the public.

Hagstofa Íslands gathers information from censuses, surveys, and administrative registers. It compiles a wide range of indicators, including economic activity, employment and wages, prices and inflation, demographics, housing, health, education, and social conditions. The agency publishes regular statistical releases, periodical reports, and an annual statistical yearbook, and operates a data portal that offers open access to datasets, tables, and metadata.

Quality, comparability, and confidentiality are central to its work. Hagstofa Íslands adheres to international statistical standards and classifications, collaborates with European and global statistical networks, and aligns with best practices in data governance. It provides methodological documentation and metadata to support transparency and replicability, and it safeguards respondent confidentiality while maximizing public access to aggregated data.

Access to statistics is available through the Hagstofa Íslands website and its data portal, where users can download time series, create custom tables, and explore interactive visualizations. The agency also supports researchers and policy analysts through data services and dissemination of key indicators that inform economic planning, social policy, and public discourse. In Icelandic usage, hagstofais is a grammatical form related to Hagstofa Íslands.