ACCESSIBILITY

Director General (Statistical Institute of Belize), info@mail.sib.org.bz

 Contact(s)

Director, Data Dissemination Department (The Statistical Institute of Belize),

info@mail.sib.org.bz

Data must be accessed through the Micro Data Access policy. In particular confidentiality of respondents is guaranteed by the Statistics Act of 2006. Before being granted access to the dataset, all users have to formally agree:

1. To make no copies of any files or portions of files to which s/he is granted access except those authorized by the data depositor.
2. Not to use any technique in an attempt to learn the identity of any person, establishment, or sampling unit not identified on public use data files.
3. To hold in strictest confidence the identification of any establishment or individual that may be inadvertently revealed in any documents or discussion, or analysis. Such inadvertent identification revealed in her/his analysis will be immediately brought to the attention of the data depositor.

This statement does not replace a more comprehensive data agreement (see Micro Data Access policy).

The dataset has been anonymized and is available as a Public Use Dataset. It is accessible to all for statistical and research purposes only, under the following terms and conditions:

1. The data and other materials will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions, or organizations without the written agreement of the Statistical Institute of Belize.
2. 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.
3. 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 such discovery would immediately be reported to the Statistical Institute of Belize.
4. No attempt will be made to produce links among datasets provided by the Statistical Institute of Belize, or among data from the Statistical Institute of Belize and other datasets that could identify individuals or organizations.
5. Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or other publications that employ data obtained from the Statistical Institute of Belize will cite the source of data in accordance with the Citation Requirement provided with each dataset.
6. An electronic copy of all reports and publications based on the requested data will be sent to the Statistical Institute of Belize.

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