Advancing trust and accountability through community governance of immigration data: embedding community perspectives

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International Journal of Population Data Science
Published
6 Jul 2026
Authors
Elise Leong-Sit, Laura Ferreira-Legere, Astrid Guttmann, J. Paterson, S. Ratnasingham, B. Shah, et al.

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Objective Outside recognized Indigenous Data Governance Principles, there is a growing movement towards community governance of other demographic data. Community governance seeks to recenter decision-making about how data are used and reported with those who are the subject of the data, but broad understanding on how to operationalize this principle is lacking. We sought to develop a community-guided governance approach for the use of immigration data at ICES, a health data institute which holds administrative health and demographic data for the province of Ontario, Canada. Approach Community perspectives to guide our approach were gathered using semi-structured focus groups. 36 individuals…

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