sentences:  In 1941 the Independent State of Croatia was formed and an "Office of General State Statistics" existed during this time under the control of the presidential government.In 1945 the "Statistical Office of the People's Republic of Croatia" was formed.In 1951 it was renamed to the "Bureau of Statistics and Evidence", in 1956 to the "Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of Croatia" and in 1963 to the "Republican Bureau for Statistics of the Socialist Republic of Croatia".