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Recommendations
Pages 219-228

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From page 219...
... Recommendation 3.2 Basic information given to all data providers requested to participate in statistical surveys and censuses should include {aJ for data on persons, information needec! to meet all Privacy Act requirements.
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From page 220...
... Recommendation 3.4 Statistical agencies should undertake and support continuing research, using the tools of cognitive and survey research, to monitor the views of data providers and the general public on informed consent, response burden, sensitivity of survey questions, data sharing for statistical purposes, and related issues. Recommendation 3.5 Federal statistical agencies should continue to develop systematic informational activities designed to inform the public of their ability to maintain the confidentiality of individually identifiable information, including use of legal barriers to disclosure and physical security procedures, and their intentions to minimize intrusions on privacy and the time and effort required to respond to statistical inquiries.
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From page 221...
... CHAPTER 4 DATA USERS Recommendation 4.1 Greater opportunities should be available for sharing of explicitly or potentially identifiable personal data among federal agencies for statistical and research purposes, provided the confidentiality of the records can be properly protected and the data cannot be used to make determinations about individual data subjects. Greater access should be permitted to key statistical and administrative data sets for the development of sampling frames and other statistical uses.
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From page 222...
... Recommendation 4.5 To promote knowledge of and adherence to the principles of responsible data use, ja) Federal statistical agencies should ask all recipients of federal microdata sets to submit to the releasing agency, in writing, their agreement to observe the above principles, plus any other conditions deemed necessary for specific data sets.
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From page 223...
... Regulations and policies under existing statutes should establish standards of reasonable care. New statutes should recognize that almost all uses of information entail some risk of disclosure and should allow release of information for legitimate statistical purposes that entail a reasonably low risk of disclosure of individually identifiable data.
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From page 224...
... Recommendation 6.5 Federal statistical agencies should strive for a greater return on public investment in statistical programs through carefully controlled increases in interagency data sharing for statistical purposes and expanded availability of federal data sets to external users. Recommendation 6.6 Statistical agencies, in their efforts to expand access for external data users, should follow a policy of responsible innovation.
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From page 225...
... Recommendation 7.3 Data providers, whether persons or organizations, should have ready access to as much information as they want about the uses of the information they are requested or required to provide to federal statistical agencies. They should be told who will have access to their data in individually identifiable form.
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From page 226...
... Recommendation 7.7 Federal statistical agencies that collect data on organizations should make a special effort to improve access for statistical research and analysis by external users and, if necessary, should seek legislation that will permit them to develop licensing arrangements that allow such users to have access at their work sites, subject to penalties for violating the conditions under which they are allowed access to the data. CHAPTER a MANAGING CONFIDENTIALITY AND DATA ACCESS FUNCTIONS Recommendation 8.1 Each federal statistical agency should review its staffing and management of confidentiality and data access functions, with particular attention to the assignment within the agency of responsibilities for these functions and the background and experience needed for persons who exercise these responsibilities.
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From page 227...
... Recommendation 8.5 The panel supports the general concept of an independent federal advisory body charged with fostering a climate of enhanced protection for all federal data about persons and responsible data dissemination for research and statistical purposes. Any such advisory body should promote the principle of functional separation and have professional staff with expertise in privacy protection, computer data bases, official statistics, and research uses of federal data.
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