Definition: Statistical confidentiality

Category: Quality, Description, Principles; Peer reviews

A principle according to which confidential data related to single statistical units, obtained directly for statistical purposes or indirectly from administrative or other sources, are protected and their use for non-statistical purposes and their unlawful disclosure prohibited. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2009.087.01.0164.01.ENG Eurostat, "European Statistics Code of Practice", Luxembourg, 2017
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Based on European Union, Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics (Official Journal of the European Union No L 87, 31.3.2009, p.164 - 173)
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