The three documents, which were supported by all parliamentary parties, define long-term goals, general principles and criteria regarding the functioning and development of the official statistical system.
The development of the statistical system is based on the need of domestic and international users for statistical data and obligations which must be fulfilled before admission to the European Union.
All clubs of deputies stressed the need to develop the statistical system in order to promote social developments in the process of integration with the EU, as well as to accomplish other national goals.
Ljubo Jurcic of the Social Democratic Party warned that official statistics had to be based on the strategy of social and economic development, which he warned the government had not adopted yet.
Speaking on behalf of national minorities, Semso Tankovic voiced distrust in the State Institute for Statistics, criticising it for putting politics before professionalism.
He said that during the 2001 census almost 20,000 Bosniaks were registered as Muslims to prevent them from stating their ethnicity.
Tankovic also said that official statistics had failed to explain how 56.4 percent of national minorities "disappeared" from Croatia in the period between 1991 and 2001.