British Crime Survey Postcode Sector Link
A Freedom of Information request to Home Office by Tony Lovick
Home Office did not have the information requested.
Tony Lovick
24 October 2008
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please could you provide a text file providing the postcode sector
for each Area Point Identifier within the Case Identifier in the
SN 5755 British Crime Survey 2006-2007
data file.
Note I understand your need to protect the identity of the
respondents to the survey, and would expect you to omit the Case
Identifiers for individual respondents where there are fewer than
15 people in the relevant Postcode sector.
However, given that there are an average of 60000 people in each
Postcode Sector I do not expect it will be possible to identify an
individual respondent for any of the survey responses in question.
Yours faithfully,
Tony Lovick
Home Office
3 November 2008
Reference : T22992/8
Thank you for your e-mail enquiry of 24/10/2008 9:39:56 AM
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12 January 2009
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12^th January 2009
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13 January 2009
Dear Sir/ Madam,
You should have received an email from the Home Office within the last 24
hours inviting you to take part in a short online survey.
We are FDS, an independent market research agency which has been
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questions about it, please do not hesitate to contact myself, Brian Westra
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circumstances, you may be asked for your ID and password. They are:-
Your ID:- 2186
[password]
I would like to thank you in advance for taking part in this survey.
Please note that the deadline for completion is Monday 9th February 2009.
Yours sincerely
Brian Westra
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Alex Skene left an annotation (3 November 2008)
There is a relevant ICO guidance note [2] which gives the example of research material being held by another.
This ICO decision notice [3] is particularly relevant, where Market Research response data was deemed to be held by the 3rd party on behalf of the public authority, and the Information Commissioner partly upheld the Section 3(2)(b) appeal.
[1] "For the purposes of this Act, information is held by a public authority if ... it is held by another person on behalf of the authority"
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/pla...
[2] http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/l...
[3] http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/d...
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