The Statistical Consolidation Act of 1998, and S. 1404, the Federal Statistical System Act of 1997 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1404 to establish a federal commission on statistical policy to study the reorganization of the Federal Statistical System, to provide uniform safeguards for the confidentiality of information acquired for exclusively statistical purposes, and to improve the efficiency of federal statistical programs and the quality of federal statistics by permitting limited sharing of records among designated agencies for statistical purposes under strong safeguards, March 26, 1998.