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ConfidentialityNo personal information about any
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are only supplied to Maps & Stats as tables of aggregate
data. These are not subject to the UK Data Protection Act,
because they hold no information identifiable with an
individual person or household.
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reports for areas that vary by only a few houses, those data
will be estimates that have been purposely modified; they are
unlikely to reflect the true situation in those houses.
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accuracy of the data reported from the web Site. Users should
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calculated.
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from inaccuracy in the information derived from Maps &
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