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The Companion Guide to the Statistics Act (5598 words) |
 | Statistics Act is not only the instrument that gives Statistics Canada its authority to collect and obtain information and its obligation to protect the confidentiality of respondents, it is also an embodiment of the history, evolution and culture of the Agency. |
| Section 15 establishes that when a person employed under the Statistics Act produces a document or an instruction that purports to be a Statistics Canada form or instruction for the purposes of collecting information, it is presumed that the form or instruction has been provided to such a person by the proper authority. |
| Moreover, under this Act, a government institution can only use personal information for the purpose for which it was collected or for a use consistent with that purpose, unless the individuals involved consent to their information being used for another purpose. |
| Statistics Canada: Historical Statistics of Canada (14156 words) |
| While statistics were tabulated manually and mechanically from police reports for publication in 1962, by 1973 all statistics were created by computer, with a substantial portion of the total volume of statistical data on crimes being submitted to Statistics Canada on magnetic tape. |
| The Criminal Statistics Act of that year made specific provisions for the furnishing of information by the various trial courts of general jurisdiction on their criminal proceedings and by wardens of penal institutions on their inmates to the Minister of Agriculture who published until 1911 an annual report based on these returns. |
| The first Statistics Act of 1918, which provided for the establishment of the Bureau, consolidated the stipulations of the Criminal Statistics Act concerning the centralized collection of statistics by requiring that information pertaining to court proceedings be transmitted to the Dominion Statistician. |
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