COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 519/2010
of 16 June 2010
adopting the programme of the statistical data and of the metadata for population and housing censuses provided for by Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses (1), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Pursuant to Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008, the Commission should adopt a programme of the statistical data and of the metadata for the population and housing censuses to be transmitted to the Commission.
(2)
In order to ensure data from the population and housing censuses conducted in the Member States are comparable, and to allow reliable Union-wide overviews to be drawn up, this programme should be the same in all Member States.
(3)
In particular, it is necessary to define hypercubes which are the same in all Member States, the special cell values and flags that the Member States can use in these hypercubes as well as the metadata on the topics.
(4)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses as regards the technical specifications of the topics and of their breakdowns (2) lays down the technical specifications for the census topics and their breakdowns to be applied to the data to be sent to the Commission for the reference year 2011.
(5)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Subject matter
This Regulation establishes the programme of the statistical data and the metadata for the population and housing censuses to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) for the reference year 2011.
Article 2
Definitions
For the purpose of this Regulation, the definitions and specifications in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009 shall apply. The following definitions shall also apply:
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.
‘principal marginal distribution’ means a subset of a given hypercube which results from the cross tabulation of some but not all of the breakdowns of the hypercube;
4.
‘primary cell’ means any cell which is part of at least one principal marginal distribution in a given hypercube. In hypercubes for which no principal marginal distribution is defined all cells are primary cells;
5.
‘secondary cell’ means a hypercube cell that is not a primary cell in a given hypercube;
6.
‘cell value’ means the information transmitted in a hypercube cell. A cell value can be either a ‘numerical cell value’ or a ‘special cell value’;
7.
‘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;
8.
‘confidential cell value’ means a numerical cell value which must not be disclosed to protect the statistical confidentiality of the data according to the Member States’ statistical disclosure control;
9.
‘non-confidential cell value’ means a numerical cell value which is not a confidential cell value;
10.
‘unreliable cell value’ means a numerical cell value which is unreliable according to the Member States’ quality control;
11.
‘special cell value’ means a symbol that is transmitted in a hypercube cell instead of a numerical cell value;
12.
‘flag’ means a code that can accompany a particular cell value to describe a specific characteristic of that cell value.
Article 3
Programme of the statistical data
1. The programme of the statistical data to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) for the reference year 2011 shall consist of the hypercubes listed in Annex I.
2. Member States shall transmit the special cell value ‘not applicable’ only in the following cases:
(a)
when a cell refers to the category ‘not applicable’ of at least one breakdown; or
(b)
when a cell describes an observation that does not exist in the Member State.
3. Member States shall replace any confidential cell value by the special cell value ‘not available’.
4. Member States can replace a non-confidential cell value by the special cell value ‘not available’ only when the cell value is in a secondary cell.
5. On request of a Member State the Commission (Eurostat) shall not disseminate to the public any unreliable cell value transmitted by that Member State.
Article 4
Metadata on the cell values
1. Where applicable, Member States shall add the following flags to a hypercube cell:
(a)
‘confidential’;
(b)
‘unreliable’;
(c)
‘revised after first data transmission’;
(d)
‘see information attached’.
2. Each cell whose confidential cell value has been replaced by the special value ‘not available’ shall be marked with the flag ‘confidential’.
3. Each cell whose numerical cell value is unreliable shall be marked with the flag ‘unreliable’, regardless of whether the numerical cell value or the special cell value ‘not available’ has been transmitted for that cell.
4. For each cell accompanied by at least one of the flags ‘unreliable’, ‘revised after first data transmission’ or ‘see information attached’ an explanatory text shall be provided.
Article 5
Metadata on the topics
Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with the metadata on the topics as laid out in Annex II.
Article 6
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 16 June 2010.