Data shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) in electronic form by means of a secure data transmission software application (STADIUM/EDAMIS) to be made available by the Commission (Eurostat).
Countries shall transmit two checked data sets to ESTAT:
the data set prior to imputation with preliminary checks;
the fully checked data set after imputation.
Both data sets shall contain the variables identified in Annex 1.
Both files shall be presented in comma separated variable (.csv) format. The first record in each file shall be a header record containing the ‘variable names’ as defined in Annex 1. Subsequent records shall detail the values of these variables for each responding enterprise.