Institutional Environment
The type of authority under which the data was collected also varied, but was legislation based in most cases, as seen in Table 5.

Table 5: Number and Proportion of Datasets by Collection Authority

Collection Authority	Number	Proportion
Legislation	142	71%
Legislation and MoU/Agreement/Other	19	10%
Agreement	15	8%
Voluntary	13	7%
MoU	3	2%
None	7	4%
Total	199	100%*

*Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding

Most datasets had confidentiality protections in place, as seen in Table 6. Where they did not, there were legislated exemptions or the dataset did not require confidentiality protection, for example, geographic databases.

Table 6: Number and Proportion of Datasets by Confidentiality Protection

Confidentiality Protection	Number	Proportion
Yes - legislated	183	92%
Partially - legislation exemptions	8	4%
Did not require confidentiality protection	8	4%
Total	199	100%*

*Percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding