The raison d'être for our agency is to publish the data and make it available. So we see it as a very good match to the mandate of our agency. There has been a long history already toward making data available in machine-readable formats and in open formats. Our publication processes for aggregate data for statistics are geared toward that end, so there is not an additional substantial cost in providing machine-readable open formats of our data.
On May 15th, 2014. See this statement in context.