Statistical Office in Rzeszow belongs to official statistics services subordinate to the Central Statistical Office and acts on the base of:

• law dated 29 June 1995 on Official Statistic (Journal of Laws 2012, item. 591), 

• statute of Statistical Office in Rzeszow annexed to the instruction No. 17 of the President of the CSO dated 13 November 2012 on detailed scope of tasks andorganization of the SO in Rzeszow (CSO Office Journal No. 2, item 7),

• Organizational Regulations of the Office introduced by the instruction No. 23 of  the Director of  the SO in Rzeszow dated 29 November 2013.

According to the above documents the main tasks of the SO in Rzeszow include:

• organization and conduct of statistical surveys, including national censuses,

• collection, gathering, storage and elaboration of data for statistical surveys conducted according to the programme of official statistics,

• dissemination and popularization of information received in surveys of official statistics, including basic figures and indices,

• keeping national official registers: 
  
                REGON - units of the national economy,
                TERYT - territorial division of the country.

The scope of the activity of the SO in Rzeszow includes also the following nationwide tasks, performed for the official statistics as a whole:

• in the field of sport and tourism statistics, market materials and fuel and energy statistics and cross-border areas and Euroregions,

• coordination of the work of the statistical offices in the field of surveys on cross-border areas and statistics of Euroregions,

• participation in international cooperation in the field of statistics for Euroregions, in particular organization of joint statistical surveys and developing and issuing publications on the Carpathian Euroregion,

• cooperation with units of government and self-government authorities, institutions and universities in designing surveys and statistical studies, as well as cooperation in this field with the appropriate organizational unit of CSO,

• preparation of information and collective publication of territorial cross-sections,

• carrying out works on the use of administrative data sources,

• development of national collections and preparation of nationwide tables as well as conducting project-development work within the extent specified separately by the President of the Central Statistical Office.