cell valuemeans the information provided in a hypercube cell.
confidential cell valuemeans 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;
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;
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;