Under which law is the information a household gives to the census kept confidential?

The Right to Information Act, 2005Correct answerYour answerThe Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969Correct answerYour answerThe Census Act, 1948Correct answerYour answerThe Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023Correct answerYour answer

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CorrectNot quiteAnswer C

Correct answer: C

The Census Act, 1948 governs the exercise and makes the individual record strictly confidential
Confidentiality is what makes an honest answer safe to give, so it is stated in the announcement itself rather than left to be assumed
Births and deaths are registered under a separate 1969 Act, which is a continuous record and not a decennial count

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Under which law is the information a household gives to the census kept confidential?

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