Legislative Environment

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Is your organisation allowed by law (e.g. stated in Statistical Act or similar) to use administrative data for statistical purposes?

Reference "Using Administrative and Secondary Sources for Official Statistics: A Handbook of Principles and Practices” https://unstats.un.org/unsd/EconStatKB/KnowledgebaseArticle10349.aspx

Is your organisation allowed by law (e.g. stated in the Statistical Act or similar) to use administrative data for statistical purposes?	[count]
	2
Yes, in all cases	23
Yes, in most cases	2
Yes, in some cases	4

Does a legal basis to access data exist?

Does a legal basis to access data exist?	[count]
	2
Yes, in all cases	17
Yes, in most cases	7
Yes, in some cases	4
No	1

Is data free to access for statistical purposes?

Is data free to access for statistical purposes?	[count]
	2
Yes, in all cases	15
Yes, in most cases	9
Yes, in some cases	3
No	2

Is your organisation prohibited from access or linking of data due to privacy issues(e.g. stated in a Personal Data Protection Act or similar)?

Is your organisation prohibited from access or linking of data due to privacy issues (e.g. stated in a Personal Data Protection Act or similar)?	[count]
	4
Yes, in all cases	3
Yes, in most cases	2
Yes, in some cases	12
No	10

Please describe any legislative limitations or barriers not mentioned above

Organisation	Please describe any legislative limitations or barriers not mentioned above
Statistics Canada	The Statistics Act provides wide data access and collection authority for the Agency coupled with strict confidentiality protections that provide some barriers to data sharing and external access. Privacy (personal information) and intellectual property (proprietary data) laws add responsibility to protect data from unlimited use and disclosure as well.
National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI for its acronym in spanish)	The Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Governmental Public Information guarantees confidential and personal data, and only allows to publish “information needed for statistical, scientific or other general purposes provided by Law, as long as said information is not related to the personal data of the person to whom the information belongs”. Unawareness of the users of the place where the information can be found, as well as the topics worked by the National Institute of Statistics and G
Israel Central Bureau of Statistics	Access to all data is subject to a general limitation Section 8 of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, requiring that any request or demand for data that impacts on privacy stand by the following criteria: the purpose of the demand/request is reasonable and the impact on privacy does not exceed what is necessary for its purpose. In the transfer of data between public bodies, regulations mandate that each request for the transfer of data be examined by both the party making the request/dema

Please list any legislative supports not mentioned above

Organisation	Please list any legislative supports not mentioned above
National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI for its acronym in spanish)	Requests for information, not confidential, must be addressed in terms of the applicable provisions.

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