Organic Act of Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan Article 6

The Fourth Bureau is in charge of the following:1. To review, make, and publish the general survey and sample check proposals;2. To review and recommend on the implementation proposals for general survey and sample check and the related budgets;3. To conduct a general survey on the farming, fishery, industrial and commercial industries, and to make statistics and analysis thereof;4. To cooperatively conduct a census, to consolidate the data therefrom, and to make statistics and analysis thereof;5. To make survey on, and to make statistics, research, and analysis of, the structure, employment, and unemployment of the labor force, as well as the labor market;6. To make survey on, and to make statistics, research, and analysis of, the wage, work hours, manpower employment/discharge, and manpower productivity;7. To manage the data obtained from general survey and sample check;8. To plan on, direct, and supervise the provisional organization set up for a general survey to be conducted by a local government;9. To borrow, organize and train, and administer the personnel required for a general survey when a general survey is to be conducted;10. To conduct a survey and make statistics thereof under the commission of a governmental organization or a private group;11. To command or supervise the personnel in charge of survey or statistics in a general survey and sample check, and to review and recommend on their employment/discharge or promotion/transfer;12. To study on and develop the survey method and sampling technique, and to provide services related thereto;13. To handle any other matters in regard to the general survey and sample check.