Article 16. Respondents

A respondent shall be an individual or a legal entity that provides official statistics producers with individual and other data for statistical purposes.

Respondents shall have the right to receive explanations and information from producers of official statistics about the purpose and legal basis of statistical observations, as well as information about ensuring confidentiality of individual data obtained.

When conducting statistical observations according to statistical programs, respondents – with the exception of cases stipulated by part five of this Article, shall be obliged to:

provide the producers of official statistics with reliable and complete data on a free-of-charge basis in accordance with the procedure and within the time-frame established by the producer of official statistics;

correct, update, supplement, and submit data to the producers of official statistics within the time-frame established by them, if according to their findings or the findings of the producers of official statistics the data submitted is not correct, not up-to-date and (or) incomplete.

Respondents may provide statistics to the producers of official statistics in paper or electronic form. In this case, the methods of statistical data collection shall be established by the producers of official statistics.

Respondents participating in the censuses conducted in certain areas of demographic and socio-economic development of the country shall have the right to provide reliable individual data according to the form of the census paper and shall be obliged not to hinder the census processes.