A complete description of the services provided by the Central Bureau of Statistics is available in Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF format. Select the icon below to view the PDF, or right-click to save the file for later offline viewing. Central Bureau of Statistics PDF 6 pages 11KB		The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) is the institution officially assigned with the collection, processing and publication of socially relevant statistics in different areas. It is a government department that resorts under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Before the Status Aparte in 1986, CBS Aruba was a branch of the central office of the Netherlands Antilles located in Curaçao and was only engaged in the collection of data. Nowadays, the CBS is able to provide data on, for example, price indices, international trade, the economy, population, labor force and education. For its statistical information, the CBS makes use of two data sources: readily available administrative information from external data files, in addition to data collected from surveys conducted among residents and organizations. It is important to note that the data collected by the CBS, by whatever means, are extremely confidential. The most important data users: THE GOVERNMENT COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL BODIES RESEARCH DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF PRICE INDICIESDEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL STATISTICS AND PUBLICATIONS Etc. CONTACT INFORMATION Telephone : International Dialing Code + 297-837433 FAX : International Dialing Code + 297-838057 Postal address : Sun Plaza Mall, L. G. Smith Boulevard 160 Aruba Dutch Caribbean