[CivicAccess-discuss] StatCan Data Inventory Project (DIP)

[Michael Mulley]

I asked someone from the Treasury Board about this this morning. The data
is not public due to the specific bureaucratic mechanism by which it was
collected -- the survey was undertaken under the Census Act, which
apparently does not allow the results to be shared outside of those who
were surveyed. Publishing the results would require the Treasury Board to
obtain specific authorization from all agencies involved; there is
apparently some internal desire to publish the results and some kind of
process underway to obtain this authorization, though it didn't sound like
breath should be bated for immediate results.

(I'm relaying this and potentially garbling the details as I do so; I know
nothing myself about the Census Act.)

It was also suggested that, even if this particular inventory project
wasn't released, that the Open Government Directive (the first commitment
of the OGP action plan, and due this year) would itself require the
publication of data inventories by every department and agency.


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:31 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> Anyone know what the outputs of the StatCan Data Inventory Project were?
> The project seems to have ended and the data released, according to the
> link below, but I don't know where that data is. According to the
> documentation, this will feed into plans for data.gc.ca. Hopefully this
> data (or a report based on it) is available online - otherwise I guess I
> may be able to use the Treasury Board's new online ATI request form?
>
>
> http://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p2SV.pl?Function=getSurvey&SDDS=5190&Item_Id=122357&lang=en
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> James
>
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