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Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

NISRA provides a statistical and research service, which supports the decision making process of Northern Ireland Ministers/Departments and informs elected representatives and the wider community through the provision of reliable official statistics.

The Agency also administers the marriage laws and provides a system for the registration of births, marriages, civil partnerships, adoptions and deaths in Northern Ireland. To facilitate its work, NISRA has statistical staff posted in all the Northern Ireland Government Departments, Agencies and Non-Departmental Public Bodies. For more information on the type of work carried out by our non-DFP branches go to the NISRA website.

Census

Plans, undertakes and reports the decennial Census of Population.

Disseminates Census data to Government and non-Government users.

Census section

Central Survey

Provides a high quality survey research service to Government Departments, Agencies and the wider public sector.

Central Survery section

Corporate services

Provides and co-ordinates services within NISRA, including business planning, financial management, national statistics online, personnel/training and premises management.

Demography and methodology

Demography section

NI Multiple Deprivation Measure 2005 section

Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS) website

Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) section

NISRA Geography section

Supports Government and the wider society by improving the official demographic and geographic statistics base for Northern Ireland through the provision of reliable, fit for purpose statistics and research tools.

General Register Office

The General Register Office is responsible for the administration of marriage and civil partnership law and the provision of a system for the civil registration of births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships, adoptions and gender recognition in Northern Ireland.

Certified copies of births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and adoptions registered in Northern Ireland may be obtained from the GRO.

General Register Office section

Human Resource Consultancy Services

Helps departments and agencies develop, implement and evaluate their HR strategies by providing them with a wide range of high quality, cost effective professional services. These include paybill modelling, HR planning, Equal Opportunity monitoring, absenteeism monitoring, staff attitude surveys, original research using quantitative and qualitative techniques and the provision of key personnel statistics.

Regional Reporting and EU Programmes

Provides specialist support and advice to DFP European Division, Northern Ireland departments and the Special EU Programmes Body with regard to the negotiation, monitoring and evaluation of Programmes Supported by European Structural Funds.

Distributes and publishes cross cutting equality, social and economic statistics on the Northern Ireland region.

Ensures that the United Kingdom Regional Accounts contain reliable estimates of Gross Value Added (GVA), income and expenditure in Northern Ireland.

Developing a high quality, fit for purpose, survey of people with disabilities.

NISRA's equality website