The main mission and goal of CSO is to provide for a comprehensive National Statistical Database yielding timely, relevant and high quality statistical information to institutions of the Government, Private sector and the wider national and international community CSO has the responsibility of promoting increased utilization of statistical information for effective decision making and informed debate on the economy by all major stakeholders.
CSO has its headquarters in Lusaka, along Nationalist Road opposite the University Teaching Hospital (UTH). The department also has offices in all the nine (9) provincial capitals of Zambia and some selected districts in each province. Provincial offices are mainly responsible for Data collection, Manual Editing and Data Entry.