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3.4.1.4 Legal considerations

Legal requirements will vary from nation to nation or region to region, but the follow-
ing issues may need to be considered:

l Collaboration agreements. These would normally be negotiated when a government funds a
survey.
l Intellectual property rights (IPR). Legal rights of access to data and results can be protected
and controlled through licensing.
l Ethical considerations. Approval for scanning or manual measurement should be sought
with reference to relevant data protection legislation (e.g., Regulation (EU) 2016/679, which
came into law in May 2018 and specifies “sensitive personal data”); such requirements
would usually be processed by the lead organization. Ethics approval documentation can
comprise a letter explaining the aims and nature of the project, formal participation, and con-
fidentiality agreements that enable the survey to collect anonymized personal data, scan
data, and measurement data from subjects in each of the local data collection venues.
Protection. The interests of children and vulnerable adults must be protected during the con-
l
duct of a sizing survey. For example, in Britain, legislation is in place requiring those respon-
sible for the conduct of a sizing survey to be certified as having been subject to a check
against a record of those with relevant criminal convictions (Disclosure and Barring
Service (DBS), 2018).
l Confidentiality. All members of the data collection team should be required to complete an
agreement to protect the confidentiality of subject data. Survey data need to be analyzed,
applied, and stored to maintain the anonymity of the subjects who have been scanned
and measured (see reference earlier to current EU law).
l License agreements. It may be that following a sizing survey processed data are to be made
available to companies that did not participate in the initial arrangements; the sale of such
data should be licensed on the basis that confidentiality can be maintained.

3.4.1.5 Press and publicity
As indicated earlier, a national sizing survey can generate considerable public interest
and publicity for participating organizations. It is important that the lead organization
manage the interaction with the media by, for example, establishing a press office to
prepare press packs and make arrangements for the release of news and statements.
Typically, press events can be the means by which subjects can be encouraged to par-
ticipate in the study, both local and national launch events, and announcement of head-
line results.

3.4.2 Preparation

The key issues to be dealt with may include the preparation of logistics software, sub-
ject registration, a life style questionnaire, an anthropometric measurement set,
benchmarking and the purchase of equipment, statistics, a model for a data collection
center, a proofing study, and the selection of survey staff and their training.