The Singapore Institute of Statistics is a professional non-profit organisation, established in 1976, with the following objectives:

1. To promote the advancement of statistics and its applications.
2. To encourage the improvement of education in statistics and the training of those interested in statistics.
3. To advance the character and status of the profession of statistics and its applications and the interests of those engaged therein.
4. To facilitate the exchange of information about statistics and its applications through meetings, exhibitions, publications and other ways.
5. To publicize and disseminate information about statistics and its application and on matters concerning the profession.
6. To represent the opinion of the members of the Institute on matters related to the objects of the Institute.
7. To secure and distribute grants and loans for education and research in statistics and its applications.