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Governance

Linkage with the National Information Centre
What does linkage mean?
It is an electronic linkage between the General Authority for Statistics and
the National Information Centre through private and secure network to
exchange data.

Objectives of the linkage
• To access the records of individuals, households, housing, and
establishments and link them with the individuals’ national
numbers.
• Unifying all the definitions and concepts, so that they can
be transferred easily into statistical records that can be
analysed and processed anytime.
• Use of register-based data in all household and establishments
surveys.
• Founding a unified statistical number for establishments.

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