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Info Source Bulletin Number 30


Statistical Information – Personal Information Banks – 2006-2007

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

35

Number of new PIBs registered during this reporting period

196

Number of new institution-specific PIBs registered

12

Number of new Standard PIBs registered

184