- administrative records
means data generated by a non-statistical source, which is usually a register held by a public body, the main aim of which is not the provision of statistics;
- breakdown
means a predefined, discrete, exhaustive and mutually exclusive set of values which can be assigned to a variable characterising statistical units;
- building intended for habitation
means a permanent structure comprised of one or more conventional dwellings or which is intended for institutional or collective housing;
- citizenship
means the particular legal bond between a person and a State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage, adoption or other means, in accordance with national law;
- conventional dwelling
means structurally separate premises and independent premises in a fixed location, which are designed for permanent human habitation and which are, on the reference date, used as a usual residence, unoccupied or used as a secondary or seasonal residence;
- data set
means one or more variables, organised in a structured form;
- detailed topic
means the detailed content of the information to be collected about the statistical units related to a topic, with each detailed topic covering one or more variables;
- domain
means one or more data sets that cover particular topics;
- emigrant
means a person who has undergone international migration during the reference period to establish that person’s new usual residence outside the territory of the reporting Member State, having previously been usually resident in the territory of the reporting Member State;
- family
means a group of two or more persons who live most of the time in the same household and who are related through parenthood or through marriage, a registered partnership or a consensual union;
- frame
means any list, material or device that delimits and identifies the elements of the target population and that, depending on its use, allows access to, or provides additional characteristics of, the elements;
- grid level
means statistical grid maintained and published pursuant to Article 4a of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003;
- hard-to-reach population groups
means groups of persons for whom a real or perceived barrier exists for full and representative inclusion or identification in the collection of statistical data, due to either a lack of coverage of such groups, or a lack of specific characteristics to identify them;
- household
means a group of two or more persons who share living quarters, or one person who does not form part of any other household;
- immigrant
means a person who has undergone international migration during the reference period to establish that person’s new usual residence in the territory of the reporting Member State;
- independent premises
means premises with direct access from a street, stairway, passage, corridor or land;
- institution
means collective living quarters for the purpose of providing, to a group of persons, long-term housing and services necessary for their daily life;
- internal migration
means the event by which a person changes his or her place of usual residence within the territory of the reporting Member State;
- international migration
means the event by which a person establishes his or her usual residence in the territory of a Member State or in a third country, having previously been usually resident in another Member State or third country;
- LAU
means local administrative unit level as set out in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003;
- living quarters
means a temporary or permanent structure, shelter or lodging place at which one or more persons reside, irrespective of whether it is designed or intended for human habitation;
- metadata
means information that is needed to use and interpret the statistics and that describes data sets in a structured way;
- national level
means a level relating to the territory of a Member State;
- population and housing census
means the detailed decennial data sets and metadata to be provided under this Regulation;
- pre-checked data sets
means data sets verified by the Member States on the basis of agreed common validation rules.
- reference date
means the point in time to which statistics refer;
- reference period
means the time interval to which statistics on events refer;
- reference time
means either a reference date or a reference period, depending whether the statistics are on events or on other statistical units;
- separate premises
means premises surrounded by walls and covered by a roof or ceiling in such a way that one or more persons can reside there independently from other persons;
- signs of life
means information indicative of the actual presence and usual residence of a person on the relevant territory which can be obtained from any appropriate source or combination thereof, including digital traces that relate to the person concerned;
- statistical unit
means one member of a universe of entities, namely persons, objects or events, about which data are collected and statistics are compiled;
- topic
means the content of the information to be collected about the statistical units, with each topic covering one or more detailed topics;
- usual residence
means 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, provided that that person:
- variable
means a characteristic of a statistical unit that can assume more than one set of values;