- aggregated data
means data concerning a set of several statistical units;
- breakdown
means a predefined discrete, exhaustive and mutually exclusive set of values which can be assigned to a variable characterising statistical units;
- detailed topic
means the detailed content of the information to be compiled related to a topic, where each detailed topic covers one or more variables;
- domain
means one or several data sets that cover particular topics;
- employee
means any person irrespective of nationality, residency or time worked in a Member State who has a direct employment relationship with an employer, established by a formal contract or an informal agreement, and who receives remuneration, irrespective of the type of work performed, the number of hours worked (full-time or part-time) or the duration of the contract or agreement (fixed or indefinite, including seasonal);
- employer
means an enterprise or a local unit that has a direct employment relationship with an employee, established by a formal contract or an informal agreement;
- enterprise
means the smallest combination of legal units as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93;
- gender pay gap
means the difference in average gross hourly earnings of male and female employees expressed as a percentage of the average gross hourly earnings of the male employees.
- local unit
means an enterprise, or a part thereof, that is situated in a geographically identified place as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 696/93;
- metadata
means information that is needed to use and interpret statistics and that describes the data in a structured way;
- microdata
means individual observations or measurements of characteristics of statistical units without a direct identifier;
- pre-checked data
means data verified by Member States based on agreed common validation rules;
- quality report
means a report conveying information about the quality of a statistical product or process;
- reference period
means the time interval to which statistics refer;
- resident enterprise
means an enterprise, that carries out economic activities contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP) as laid down in Chapter 1 of Annex A to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- resident local unit
means a local unit that carries out economic activities contributing to the GDP as laid down in Chapter 1 of Annex A to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013;
- respondent
means the unit that supplies data;
- sample
means a subset of a sampling frame whose elements are selected based on a process with a known probability of selection, designed so as to allow for deriving valid estimations for the statistical population;
- sampling frame
means a list, map or other specification of the units which determine a statistical population that is to be completely enumerated or sampled;
- social enterprise
means a private law entity, which can be established in a variety of legal forms, that provides goods and services for the market in an entrepreneurial way and in accordance with the principles and features of the social economy, having social or environmental objectives as the reason for its commercial activity;
- statistical classification
means an ordered list, with one or more levels of detail, of related though mutually exclusive categories used to structure information in a given statistical domain according to its similarities;
- statistical population
means the set of statistical units about which information is required;
- statistical survey
means collecting data from a sample of respondents, which can be extrapolated to the statistical population by using appropriate statistical methods;
- statistical unit
means an entity on which data are collected and statistics are compiled;
- topic
means the content of the information to be compiled, with each topic covering one or more detailed topics;
- variable
means a characteristic of a unit or of a set of units that can assume more than one of a set of values;