What happens if I don't want to take the Dane survey in Colombia?

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) has an instrument called the National Household Survey, which measures the country's labor market . What happens if a person doesn't answer the questions in this document?

According to the official website of the national statistics agency , citizens are required to participate in surveys and censuses conducted. This obligation is set forth in Articles 19 and 57 of Law 2335 of 2023, "which issues provisions on official statistics in the country." "Participation in censuses, surveys, and other means of data collection developed by DANE for statistical purposes is mandatory for public and private entities, as well as for individuals, households, and all other sources," states Article 79 of the aforementioned legislation.

And it adds in its article 57: " The DANE may impose pecuniary sanctions between 830 UVT and 5,500 UVT to natural or legal persons who fail to comply with the provisions of the aforementioned law or obstruct the carrying out of censuses, surveys or other statistical operations, after exhausting the administrative sanctioning procedure contemplated in the Code of Administrative Procedure and Administrative Litigation."

(See more: Full of potassium: the fruit that lowers blood pressure and everyone has at home) In addition, the regulations mentioned that "in the case of public servants, failure to provide due cooperation constitutes grounds for misconduct that will be punishable by suspension or dismissal from office." Who should take this DANE survey?

Article 5 of Law 79 of 1993 states that “natural or legal persons, of any kind or nature, domiciled or resident in the national territory , are required to provide the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) with the data requested for the development of censuses and surveys,” they stated. “The data provided to the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) for the development of censuses and surveys may not be made available to the public, official entities or agencies, or public authorities, but only in numerical summaries, which do not allow the deduction of any individual information that could be used for commercial, tax, judicial investigation, or any other purposes other than strictly statistical purposes,” they stated.