BY :BERTRAND LOUIS-MARIE
NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS
SEYCHELLES
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Introduction
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Experience
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Procedures to access census micro-data
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Challenges
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Benefits of archiving data
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Conclusion
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Survey and Census micro-data are valuable
resources for government departments and
businesses.
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They constitute valuable and irreplaceable assets
which should be managed in a way that
encourages their widest possible use and re-use.
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At the same time, confidentiality of respondents
is of paramount concern to data collectors.
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Department of Public Administration
HRIS-Human resource information system
(softcopy)
Personal files of all employees in the
public and parastatal sector (hardcopy)
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Ministry of Internal Affairs
National Population Data base (NPD)
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Partially provided to update NPD
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Provision made in Electoral Commission ACT to
obtain data from census records
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Data on selected variables may be released,
including names, address, age, DOB, nationality
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Formal letter of request to census commissioner
 Training
in relevant technological tools for
archiving census data
 Storage
 Lack
arrangement for safe keeping
of specific laws/ regulations
 Reduce
backup and restore time
 Reduce
database administration cost
 Reduce
downtime for system upgrade
 Reusability
of data
 National
Bureau of Statistics have not yet
developed a system for archiving census data
 National
Bureau of Statistics is planning to
establish a system by 2011/2012
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There is a need to have a law/regulation
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Instead of using boxes to store loads of paper form, digital
archiving of census forms will save a lot of space and cost
less
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It is important to maintain data as inexpensively and
effectively as possible
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Ensure the viability of micro-data now and in the future
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Promote the acquisition, documentation, dissemination
and preservation of micro-data essential for the production
of national statistics, for research and for other use
Thank you