buildingsshall mean permanent buildings that contain living quarters designed for human habitation, or conventional dwellings that are reserved for seasonal or secondary use or that are vacant;
essential features of population and housing censusesshall mean individual enumeration, simultaneity, universality within a defined territory, availability of small-area data and defined periodicity.
housingshall mean living quarters and buildings as well as housing arrangements and the relationship between the population and living quarters at the national, regional and local levels at the reference date;
localshall mean at Local Administrative Units level 2 (LAU level 2);
nationalshall mean on the territory of a Member State;
populationshall mean the national, regional and local population at its usual residence at the reference date;
reference dateshall mean the date to which the data of the respective Member State refer, in accordance with Article 5(1);
regionalshall mean at NUTS level 1, NUTS level 2 or NUTS level 3, as defined in the classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS), established by Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council in its version applicable at the reference date;
usual residenceshall mean the place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage.