Parents' concerns regarding gang crime

The survey responses are used by the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) to produce statistics for crime prevention purposes, used both by Brå and other users such as the Parliament, the Government, and municipalities.

Information about children and parents was collected from the Swedish Tax Agency's population register in two separate extractions. The first extraction contained a random sample of 15,000 children with information about their personal identity number, registered address, parents, and guardians.

For the parents who were also guardians of the children, a second extraction was made containing the parent's name, personal identity number, registered address, place/country of birth, and the personal identity numbers of all their children. The registered address was used to select the parent who was registered at the same address as the child, or to randomly select one parent if both were registered at the same address. The personal identity numbers of the parent's other children were used to check if children selected for the survey have siblings and if any of the siblings share a date of birth with the child, as the parent would then need additional information to identify which child is being referred to in the survey.

Age and legal gender for both children and parents are categorized by Brå based on the personal identity number.

Brå is the controller for all processing of your personal data, such as name and address or anything else that identifies a person. Processing personal data includes, for example, collecting, storing, or processing personal data. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to Brå's processing of your personal data. The purpose of processing your personal data is for Brå to be able to produce statistics that are used for crime prevention purposes. Personal data is erased 6 months after the results of the survey have been published.

Brå's legal basis for processing your personal data is that it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest (to produce statistics). According to the ordinance (2016:1201) with instructions for Brå, Brå shall develop knowledge in the criminal policy area by being responsible for the official crime statistics in accordance with the ordinance (2001:100) on official statistics and develop these statistics as well as other relevant statistics.

You have the right to receive a copy, a register extract, of the personal data that Brå processes about you. In certain cases, you also have the right to have your data erased. If you are dissatisfied with how your personal data is processed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection.

The results of the survey will not reveal what you specifically answered. Absolute confidentiality applies to the data collected by Brå. This means that no information may be disclosed under any circumstances to anyone other than the employees at Brå who are working on the survey. However, the data may be disclosed for other research and statistical purposes after careful consideration. The data will still be subject to confidentiality.

All collected information about individuals' personal or economic circumstances that can be attributed to the individual is subject to confidentiality in accordance with Chapter 24, Section 8 of the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (2009:400) and Section 7 of the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Ordinance (2009:641).