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Confidentiality

The Statistics Act

The Statistics Act requires that all census information be kept confidential. No person or institution outside Statistics Canada can access census information provided by individual respondents, and this includes other government departments and agencies, the courts and the RCMP.

Confidentiality procedures

Statistics Canada places the highest priority on maintaining the confidentiality of individual census questionnaires at all stages of the census process. All tabulated data are subject to the following confidentiality procedures:

Each data table is put through a series of computerized checks to suppress any data that could disclose information concerning a particular agricultural operation or individual. In all cases, however, suppressed data are included in the aggregate subtotals and totals in each table.

Data for geographic areas with very few agricultural operations are not released separately, but are merged with data from one or more geographically adjacent areas.

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