Ⅰ. Organization & Staff

   The Department of Statistics has one Director-general, one Deputy Director-general, responsible for the administration of the statistics businesses by Statistics Act and related rules. The Department also contains senior executive officer, section chiefs, executive officers, and officers.

   The Department is divided into three divisions, as highlighted in the chart below.

   The MOTC’s Department of Statistics is responsible for collecting and analyzing data on Taiwan’s transportation and communications sectors.

Ⅱ. Responsibilities

   The responsibilities for the Department’s three divisions are as follows:

   ·Survey Statistics Division

   The survey statistics division focuses on survey statistics, with its detailed activities including the following:

1. Conducting transportation-related surveys, compiling and publishing the survey results.
2. Co-conducting the Employees’Earning of Transportation and Storage Sector survey.
3. Researching and establishing statistical systems of transportation-related surveys.
4. Managing the web pages of the department of statistics.
5. Managing and examination the statistical survey projects within the MOTC and all its subordinate statistics agencies.
6. Other miscellaneous survey statistics.
 

   ·Official Statistics Division

   The official statistics division focuses on official statistics within the transportation and communications sectors, including the following:

1. Compile annual transportation report, monthly transportation report and main statistical indicators.
2. Compile international transportation statistics.
3. Compile official transportation statistics and develop administrative Statistics Scheme as well as official statistical tables of those statistics.
4. Define and classify transportation statistics glossary.
5. Establish, expand and maintain transportation statistics database system as well as inquiry system.
6. Compile transportation gender statistics. 
7. Demarcate, supervise and manage statistical responsibilities within the MOTC and all its subordinate statistics agencies.
8. Other miscellaneous official statistics.

   ·Statistics Administration Division

   The statistics administration division supports the administration of policy and planning, and its activities include the following:

1. Conducting production value survey on tourism, transportation and storage industries.
2. Conducting commodity flow and freight revenue survey of domestic aviation and water transportation by goods.
3. Conducting year policy plan and budget of the department of statistics. 
4. Conducting a seminar on the statistical business of the MOTC.  
5. Handling appointment, dismissal, transfer, performance appraisal, rewards, punishments, advanced studies, training, retirement, and severance of statistical staffers within the MOTC and all its subordinate statistics agencies. 
6. Other miscellaneous statistics administration.