Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/712Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

The definitions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 and the specifications set out in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/543 shall apply. The following definitions shall also apply for the purpose of this Regulation:

(1)

‘total population’ of a well-defined geographical area means all persons whose usual residence, as defined in Article 2(d) of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008, is located in that geographical area;

(2)

‘hypercube’ means a multidimensional cross tabulation of breakdowns which contains a cell value for the measurement of each category of each breakdown cross-tabulated by each category of any other breakdown used in that hypercube;

(3)

‘cell value’ means the information provided in a hypercube cell. A cell value can be either a ‘numerical cell value’ or a ‘special cell value’;

(4)

‘numerical cell value’ means a numerical value that is transmitted in a cell in order to provide the statistical information on the observation for that cell;

(5)

‘confidential cell value’ means a numerical cell value which in order to protect the statistical confidentiality of the data must not be divulged, according to the Member States' protective measures against disclosure of statistical data;

(6)

‘non-confidential cell value’ means a numerical cell value which is not a confidential cell value;

(7)

‘unreliable cell value’ means a numerical cell value which is unreliable according to the Member States' quality control;

(8)

‘special cell value’ means a symbol that is transmitted in a hypercube cell instead of a numerical cell value;

(9)

‘flag’ means a code that can accompany a particular cell value to describe a specific characteristic of that cell value.