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Info Source Bulletin Number 28


Statistical Information – 
Personal Information Banks
2004–2005

Personal Information Banks

Personal Information Banks provide a summary description of the type of information about individuals that is held by federal departments and agencies in their records and that has been used, is being used, or is available for use for an administrative purpose, or is organized or intended to be retrieved by the name of an individual or by an identifying number, symbol or other particular assigned to an individual.

Number of institutions registering new PIBs during this period 97
Number of new PIBs registered during this reporting period 809
Number of new institution-specific PIBs registered 78
Number of new standard PIBs registered 731
Number of standard PIBs revised by the Treasury Board of
Canada Secretariat
4