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Confidentiality: Your right(Document last updated May 1, 2001) Statistics Canada places the highest priority on maintaining the confidentiality of individual census questionnaires at all stages of the census process. By law, this is your right. The Statistics Act requires that all personal census information be kept confidential. No one outside Statistics Canada is permitted access to individual census information. These data are released only after they have been added to similar information from other households, and rounded. No detailed data are released for areas with a population of less than 40 people. All interviewers and other Statistics Canada employees, must take an oath of secrecy when they are hired. Only employees who have a need to examine individual census questionnaires have access to completed questionnaires. The Statistics Act contains penalties in the form of a fine of up to $1,000 or a jail term of up to six months or both if an employee releases personal census information. Statistics Canada has also taken steps to ensure the security of the information it collects: access to its premises is controlled and there are no external communication lines connected to its data bases. |
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