1. Confidentiality in data dissemination
Prepared for the 6th meeting of the Oslo Group on Energy Statistics
Canberra, Australia 2-5 May 2011
Sadija M Jama
Division for Energy Statistics
Statistics Norway

2. UN Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
Principle 6. Individual data collected by statistical agencies for statistical compilation, whether they refer to natural or legal persons, are to be strictly confidential and used exclusively for statistical purposes.

3. Confidentiality principle at Statistics Norway
The Statistics Act of 1989
§ 2-4 of the Statistics Act
Collected data are subject to secrecy and are to be kept or destroyed in a secure manner.
§ 2-6 of the Statistics Act
Information collected shall under no circumstances be published in such a way that it may be traced back to the supplier of any data or to any other identifiable individual to the detriment of the person or companies concerned.

4. Dealing with confidentiality
Aggregation
Cell suppression
“90 percent rule”
Permission from the respondent

5. Confidentiality committee
Publication of statistics that are believed to violate the rule of the Statistics Act § 2-6 and to
Formulate guidelines for the publication of detailed statistics.
Committee case:
Data on energy use in Norwegian municipalities

6. Joint data collection
Energy statistics is highly used among different public institutions.
Different institutions collect same type of data separately.
How can Statistics Norway share collected detailed data to other institutions in order to reduce response burden and costs?
- Energy Act
- Pollution Act
Example:
- Energy use in manufacturing sector and district heating statistics

7. Thank you very much for your attention!