The collection of primary data during personal or household interviews remains an important data acquisition method in many social protection systems.

The results of such a registration exercise may account for a large part of the information that the sector holds. The data collector may be constituted by several entities, such as when multiple survey firms are contracted to cover different parts of the country. It could also be that a Data administrator wishes to commit the resources needed to conduct primary data collection.

The assignment of the national statistics agency to collect this data is also common.

Source: This organisational profile description is from A data governance framework for digital social protection systems of the Digital Convergence Initiative.


The data collector will typically include professionals of these (ICT) Profiles:

These professionals preferably have Civic participation skill level Civic participation at level 3 - Apply or Civic participation at level 4 - Enable.

The data collector creates and manages (mostly) operational deliverables from: