Philippines - Quarterly Commercial Fisheries Survey 2020

National Statistician (Philippine Statistics Authority), info@psa.gov.ph, www.psa.gov.ph
Chief, Knowledge Management and Communications Division (Philippine Statistics Authority) , info@psa.gov.ph, www.psa.gov.ph
Chief, Fisheries Statistics Division (Philippine Statistics Authority) , fsd.staff@psa.gov.ph; fsdco.psa@gmail.com

The PSA and its field personnel shall hold all data supplied by the establishments/households/individuals in confidence. The information obtained from each respondent of the census/survey or individual/establishment in administrative records shall be for statistical purposes only and not for taxation, regulation nor investigation purposes. The data shall be processed with others of the same category and shall be disseminated in summary forms or statistical tables so as not to reveal the identity of any respondent.

Confidentiality of primary data collected from respondents/administrative records systems is guaranteed by Section 26 of the Republic Act No. 10625 (Philippine Statistics Act of 2013). Penalties shall be enforced to acts of breach of confidential information pursuant to Section 27 of the said Act.

Authorization to use this data is granted only to the client or data user and persons within its organization, if applicable. Under no circumstances shall the client reproduce, distribute, sell or lend the entire data or parts thereof to any other data user apart from himself or that of authorized employees in his organization. The PSA shall hold the data user fully responsible for safeguarding the data from any unauthorized access or use. Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree: To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which they are granted access except those authorized
by the PSA.

Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified in the dataset. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishments or individuals that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in their analyses should immediately be reported to the PSA.

The data users/researchers acknowledge that the PSA and the agency funding the study bear(s) no liabilities and responsibilities for any particular, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages, whatsoever resulting from loss of use, or of data in connection with the use or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
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