OREANDA-NEWS. December 24, 2012. The State Official Statistics Program 2013-17 has been approved by President Ilham Aliyev.

The program has the following directions - system of national accounts and macroeconomic indices; socio-economic statistics; strengthening of the material and technical base of the state statistics; strengthening of human resources and the international cooperation. One of the main expected results is reduction of reporting for small businesses, improving the quality of statistical information, the introduction of statistics on the socio-demographic groups of the population, improving the quality of corporate statistical reporting in parallel with the simplification of its system.

One of the main activities of the program is Azerbaijan agricultural census in 2015.