### Question
Can you define what agent means?


### Answer
**Agent** is defined as the following in *44 U.S.C. § 3561*:

> an individual—


(A)(i) who is an employee of a private organization or a researcher affiliated with an institution of higher learning (including a person granted special sworn status by the Bureau of the Census under section 23(c) of title 13), and with whom a contract or other agreement is executed, on a temporary basis, by an executive agency to perform exclusively statistical activities under the control and supervision of an officer or employee of that agency

#### Citation:
  - *44 U.S.C. § 3561*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 35-COORDINATION OF FEDERAL INFORMATION POLICY > SUBCHAPTER III-CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND STATISTICAL EFFICIENCY > Part A-General**

