cell valuemeans the information transmitted in a hypercube cell.
confidential cell valuemeans 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;
flagmeans a code that can accompany a particular cell value to describe a specific characteristic of that cell value.
hypercubemeans 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;
non-confidential cell valuemeans a numerical cell value which is not a confidential cell value;
numerical cell valuemeans a numerical value that is transmitted in a cell in order to provide the statistical information on the observation for that cell;
primary cellmeans any cell which is part of at least one principal marginal distribution in a given hypercube.
principal marginal distributionmeans a subset of a given hypercube which results from the cross tabulation of some but not all of the breakdowns of the hypercube;
secondary cellmeans a hypercube cell that is not a primary cell in a given hypercube;
special cell valuemeans a symbol that is transmitted in a hypercube cell instead of a numerical cell value;
unreliable cell valuemeans a numerical cell value which is unreliable according to the Member States’ quality control;