RULES OF DATA DISSEMINATION

In accordance with the Law on Official Statistics dated 29th June 1995 (Journal of Laws No. 88, item 439 with later amendments) statistical service is obliged to gather, process and disseminate data.

The collected and gathered in the statistical surveys of official statistics individual and personal data shall be confidential and subject to particular protection; the data shall be used exclusively for statistical calculations, compilations and analyses and for the creation by the statistical services of official statistics sampling frames for statistical surveys conducted by those services; providing or use of individual and personal data for other than specified above purposes shall be prohibited (statistical confidentiality).

The official statistics shall provide to all equal, indiscriminatory and simultaneous access to the statistical information, especially to major figures and indicators. Who violates statistical confidentiality shall be subject to imprisonment up to 3 years.

Who to obtain material or personal gains uses statistical data known to him/her due to performing job or tasks on the commission of the organiser of a statistical survey of official statistics shall be subject to imprisonment up to 5 years.

It shall not be allowed to publish or disseminate individual data obtained in the statistical services of official statistics. It shall not be allowed to publish or disseminate obtained in statistical surveys of official statistics statistical information which can be linked or can identify natural persons or individual data characterising business entities, especially if the aggregated data consist of less than three entities or the share of one entity in the compilation is higher than the three-fourths of the total.

The results of statistical surveys are disseminated by the statistical service of official statistics in the forms of:

• publications
• preliminary elaboration
• announcements and reports of the President of Central Statistical Office
• information which can be obtained in person, by telephone or by mail
• computer information services
• individual orders

Forms of the dissemination of survey results are defined by the Statistical survey programme of official statistics. Aggregations and elaborations which are not included in the programme but possible to conduct may be ordered for a charge.

Orders may be sent:

• by e-mail: SekretariatUSBST@stat.gov.pl
• by mail, address: 15-959 Bialystok, Krakowska 13 Street
• in person in the Statistical Office Secretariat
• by fax: (+48) 85 749 77 79

The order should include:

• thematical range
• period range
• territorial range (voivodship, powiat, gmina)
• form of dissemination
• name, surname, address, number of tax identification, telephone number
• payment form