1. LAMAS Working Group 7-8 December 2016
Agenda Item 4.3 Ad hoc requests and confidentiality
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2. Background
LAMAS June 2016: further investigate 'specific rules for spec. organisations for spec. purposes'
Tables without flags and with flags 'b'
Should be considered as tables on Estat Website
Protocol on impartial access and Code of practice
Tables with flags 'a' and 'c'
Should be considered as confidential data
Regulation (EC) n°223/2009 (Article 21)
List of organisations proposed
Replacement techniques (Handbook, further work)
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3. LAMAS exchange of views
Tables without flags and with flags 'b'
General description of the applied rule is sufficient
Sometimes against confidentiality (e.g. table asked by trade unions)
Who decides criterion for 'b' flag
=> List of requests on Estat Website WITHOUT any reference to user (only info on variables)
Replacement techniques
Need more information to decide
=> Estat will further work on the basis of the SDC Handbook
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4. LAMAS exchange of views
Tables with 'a' and 'c'
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5. LAMAS exchange of views
Tables with flags 'a' and 'c'
Authorization for each individual case? => global agreement
Already done at national level
Specify circumstances; when it is 'necessary', use of the data, own computation but not publication, compliant with ESS rules => need to define statistical purposes
Add in list: statistical bodies regulated by statistical law, UNESCO, IMF, Ministries, those who have access to micro-data => which revision of the list?
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