RETURN OF DATA TO SOURCE
For 2013, the Australian Statistician has approved return-to-source arrangements for the Collection under Section 19 of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 (Cwlth).
This approval includes returning all data received from a particular data provider back to that data provider as well as any transformations applied to that data (e.g. age derived from date of birth, geographical area information derived from usual residence or coding applied for blank or missing data).
The approval does not include any information about individuals obtained from other data providers or from other data managed by the ABS.
Return to source is approved to support improvements in data management and statistical capability of data providers.