{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1668/annex-II/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2003/1668",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1668/2003 of 1 September 2003 implementing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 58/97 with regard to the technical format for the transmission of the structural business statistics and amending Commission Regulation No 2702/98 concerning the technical format for the transmission of structural business statistics",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1668",
  "path": "annex/II/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The form of the data",
  "text": "The data is sent as a set of records of which a large part describes the characteristics of the data (country, year, economic activity etc.). The data itself is a number which can be linked to flags and explanatory footnotes used for example to describe aggregations of NACE codes. Confidential data should be sent with the true value being recorded in the value field and a flag indicating the nature of the confidential data being added to the record.\nIn order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following special cases:\ndata equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),\nmissing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,\ndata not available: this is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case, the corresponding record is not sent.\nBy default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS code, a Size Class code etc.) is not collected then the corresponding records will not exist (except for those which are missing because they form part of a regrouping of NACE codes. This is why it is important to distinguish data which is really missing by supplying a record (one per missing item) in which the data value is coded as ‘m’, and data which is really equal to zero by supplying the corresponding records in which the data value is set to 0.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1668/annex/II/division/1",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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