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Opportunities at The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
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Opportunities at The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), September 2018
The
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has been established as an autonomous
public office by the Statistics Act, 2015 and has the mandate to provide
official statistics to the Government, business community and the public at
large.
The
Act also gives NBS the mandate to play the role as a co-coordinating agency,
within the National Statistical System (NSS) to ensure that quality official
statistics is produced.
Before
the enactment of the Statistics Act of 2015, the NBS was one of the Government
Executive Agencies which was established on the 26th March, 1999 under the
Executive Agencies Act, 1997.