Mark
Through a contact I have within ONS I have received the following
answer from the Census division hope this helps.
Chris
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Though there is no reference on the Census form itself to the
requirement for the Census to confirm to the provisions of current
data protection legislation, the assurances that this would be the
case was made in the Government' proposals for the 2001 Census
as set out in the White Paper The 2001 Census of Population (Cm
4253) published in March 1999.
Information on the name of the name of a person's employer is
used solely as a further aid to the accurate coding of the type of
industry by reference to the Inter-Departmental Business Register
(IDBR) - a list of large employers already classified by type of
industry. Responses to the question will not be used to produce
any information on named individual employers.
Responses to the question on address of place of work will show
the destination of individual journeys to work in relation to the usual
address, which will normally be the origin of the journey, and will, in
combination with the response to the mode of transport to work
question, will provide information on travel to work patterns.
The 4th data protection principle requires data to be accurate and, if
necessary, kept up to date. For the purposes for which the census
information is collected - producing statistics in respect to a particular point in time - it is not necessary for such information to be updated.
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On 23 Apr 01, at 9:21, Mark Norman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if anyone has discussed this before but reading the
> Census form I have concerns regarding data protection compliance and
> particular questions and wondered what people thought.
>
> Firstly, one would imagine that census forms will be processed at some
> point electronically and therefore would have to comply with the Data
> Protection Act. There is no mention of the DPA on the form at all.
>
> There is a mention of the Census Act 1920. Obviously computers were
> not around then but would the DPA over-rule the Census Act?
>
> Secondly, I have concerns regarding questions 32 and 33 (Name of
> employer and address of employer). What is the need and relevance of
> these questions in a census? Surely this breaks the 4th Data
> protection principle?
>
> What do you think? I've tried finding information on the web etc and
> have spent ages hanging onto the so-called Census helpline but no joy
> so far.
>
> All the best
>
> Mark
> Mark Norman
> Library IT Manager
> Regent's College
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>
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