The study focus “Official Statistics” provides students with an additional advanced training in the specific themes of official statistics, e.g. the organisation and role of the National Statistical Institutes and other official data producers and their legal bases, the different kinds of data sources (censuses, sample surveys, administrative sources) and the methodological and confidentiality issues in official statistics The completion of this specialization area qualifies students to additionally receive the certificate EMOS (European Master in Official Statistics).

To complete the study focus Official Statistics students have to complete 18 ECTS in the subject Applied Statistics and to conduct a project in the area of Official Statistics preferably within an internship at a statistical authority (such as Statistics Austria, the statistical office of the federal state of Upper Austria, the economic chamber, the UNIDO, or the Austrian National Bank) in the subject Applied Statistics. Students have to take eithe the Seminar Applied Statistics or the Seminar Statistical Applications twice.

The completion of the study branch Official statistics qualifies students to additionally receive the certificate EMOS,
To acquire the EMOS certificates students have to conduct a project in the area of Official Statistics in internship at a statistical authority (such as Statistics Austria, the statistical office of the federal state of Upper Austria, the economic chamber, the UNIDO, or the Austrian National Bank).