Agency Name: | National Administrative Department of Statistics |
Nativename: | Spanish; Castilian: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística |
Preceding1: | Dirección Nacional de Estadística |
Headquarters: | Carrera 59 № 26-70 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
Coordinates: | 4.647°N -74.0956°W |
Budget: | COP$371,929,146,839 (2014)[1] |
Chief1 Name: | Beatriz Piedad Urdinola Contreras |
Chief1 Position: | Director |
Child1 Agency: | FONDANE |
Child2 Agency: | IGAC |
Keydocument1: | Decreto 2666 de 1953 |
The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Spanish; Castilian: Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística), commonly referred to as DANE, is the Colombian Administrative Department responsible for the planning, compilation, analysis and dissemination of the official statistics of Colombia.[2] DANE is responsible for conducting the National Population and Housing census every ten years, among several other studies.
DANE offers more than 100 statistical operations on industrial, economic, agricultural, population and quality of life aspects aimed at supporting decision-making in the country.
Since 2022, the director is Beatriz Piedad Urdinola Contreras.