Authority to collect data

For rational implementation of the activities of national statistics, SORS and authorised producers use data from various official and other administrative records - kept by the public and private sector on the basis of law or written consent of the individual - at micro level and with ID numbers. All data from public and private reporting units are free of charge. Institutions within the Slovenian statistical system have the right to link the data from administrative records and surveys with statistical registers and use them for statistical and research purposes.

When collecting data from reporting units, they must be acquainted with the:

• purpose, extent and mode of data collecting,
• obligation to report or not,
• rights and obligations of data collectors,
• meaning and contents of registry identifiers and other identification numbers,
• assurance about statistical confidentiality of collected data,
• possibility to obtain additional information on the purpose and importance of the statistical survey.