Information to respondents

Persons to be surveyed must be informed, in writing or electronically, of 1. the purpose, nature and scope of the survey, 2. confidentiality (section 16), 3. the obligation to provide information, or the voluntary nature of providing it (section 15), 4. the legal basis of the respective federal statistic and the auxiliary characteristics used in conducting it, 5. separation and deletion (section 12), 6. the rights and duties of the survey officers (section 14), 7. the exclusion of suspensive effect for an objection and an action for annulment against the request to provide information (section 15(7)), 8. the auxiliary and survey characteristics used to maintain the statistics register (section 13(1)), 9. the meaning and content of serial numbers and reference numbers (section 9(2)).