Terms & Conditions


The data and other materials provided by the National Bureau of Statistics will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations with out the written agreement of the National Bureau of Statistics.

The data will be used for statistical and scientific research purposes only. They will be used solely for reporting of aggregated information, and not for investigation of specific individuals or organizations.

No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and no use will be made of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any of such discovery would immediately be reported to the National Bureau of Statistics.

Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.

An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The original collector of the data, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the relevant funding agencies bear no responsibility for use of the data or interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

By continuing past this point to the data retrieval process, you signify your agreement to comply with the above-stated terms and conditions and give your assurance that the use of statistical data obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics will conform to widely-accepted standards of practice and legal restrictions that are intended to protect the confidentiality of respondents.