This Act is enacted to enhance the efficient operation of government statistics, ensure the objectivity and independence of government statistics, and maintain the quality of government statistics.

The statistical affairs of government shall be carried out in accordance with this Act. However, the Act is not applicable to the statistics which are specifically collected and compiled for the survey of intentionality and academic research by any agency.

The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
1. Government agencies: all levels of government agencies (organizations), public schools and public enterprises.
2. BAS (Budget, Accounting and Statistics) Agencies at all levels of government: the Central BAS Agency in the central government, the departments of BAS in the special municipal governments, the departments of BAS in the counties (cities) governments, the BAS offices or the BAS personnel in the townships(cities) offices, or in the mountain indigenous districts of special municipalities.
3. Administrative statistics: the statistics obtained from processes and results of the official duties that are carried out by government agencies.
4. Statistical survey: the survey on individuals, households, business entities, agencies, or groups held by the government agencies for the statistical purpose and operational requirements, including the Basic National Census and Survey,Designated Statistical Survey and General Statistical Survey.
5. The Basic National Census and Survey: the census and survey of the national population, land, resource, economy, society, and other categories that may represent the basic conditions of entire nation.
6. Designated Statistical Survey: the survey published by the Central BAS Agency as required for critical statistics or significant policy of the government. The requirement of critical statistics or significant policy of the government means the fundamental data as necessary reference for formulating the policies, statistics recommended by international organizations, or critical for international comparison, or other statistical surveys recognized by the Central BAS Agency.
7. General Statistical Survey: the statistical survey conducted by the government agency other than the Basic National Census and Survey and Designated Statistical Survey.
8. The party: the person identified in the personal information; the household member responding on behalf of the entire household identified in the household information; the responsible person, representative, or administrator identified in the business entity, agency, or group information.

The government shall collect and compile the statistics as follows:
1.The statistics of the the Basic National Census and Survey.
2.The statistics of official duties performed by the government agencies
3.Other statistics that government agencies deem necessary to be collected and compiled.
The data sources of the preceding paragraph are as follows:
1.Administrative records or reports.
2.Statistical surveys.
3.Relevant data of other agencies or groups.

Government statistics shall be collected and compiled by the competent government agency, or in accordance with the rules as follows:
1.The Basic National Census and Survey shall be conducted by the Central BAS Agency.
2.Government statistics not exclusively related to any government agency shall be collected and compiled by the relevant government agency (organization) based on the coordination by the BAS Agencies at all levels of government.
The central government may commission the local government to conduct the statistical survey.

The Central BAS Agency shall draft the scheme on the division of the scope of statistics between all levels of government and the central government agencies, and submit the scheme to the Executive Yuan for approval.
Any amendment to the scheme in preceding paragraph that does not affect the basic principles may be implemented directly by the Central BAS Agency after consulting with relevant government agencies.
According to the scheme in the paragraph 1, the BAS Agencies in local government may divide the scope of statistics between their government agencies and subordinate agencies.