# 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, Division 2: Data set structure

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The data set shall consist of the following fields
NB:
A = Alphanumeric, N = Numeric
Field
Type
Maximum length
Values
1
Series
A
2
6A, 6B, 6C, 6D, 6E, 6F, 6G, 6H. Alphanumeric code of the series (see list below)
2
Year
A
4
Year in four characters e.g. 2001
3
Territorial unit
A
6
Corresponds to the country code for national series or to the NUTS 99 code of the region for regional series: NUTS 99 is the new nomenclature put in place in December 1999
4
Economic activity
A
4
NACE rev. 1 code
5
Measurement
A
3
Variable — type of measurement —
6
Unit
A
4
Unit
7
Variable
A
5
Variable code. The codes laid down in Annex 6 of the SBS Regulation have 5 characters (see list below)
8
Size class
A
4
Code for the size class (see list below)
or
Residence of parent enterprise
Code for the country of residence of the parent enterprise (see list below)
or
Category
Code for the category of credit institutions (see list below)
9
Breakdown of products
A
6
Corresponds to the CPA code (see list below)
10
Legal status or
A
4
Code for the legal status of enterprise (see list below)
Geographical breakdown
Code for the geographical breakdown of the partner countries (see list below)
11
Data Value
A
12
Numeric value of the data (negative values are preceded by a minus sign) expressed as a whole number without decimal places. An ‘M’ should be used if the data is not sent because it is missing
12
Quality flag
A
1
R: revised data, M: updated data, P: provisional data
13
Confidentiality flag
A
1
A, B, C, D: indicates that the data is confidential and the reason for that confidentiality (see list below). A blank space indicates non-confidential data
14
Dominance
N
3
A numeric value less than or equal to 100. This indicates the percentage dominance of one or two enterprises which dominate the data and make it confidential. The value is rounded to the nearest whole number: e.g. 90.3 becomes 90, 94.50 becomes 95. This field is blank for non-confidential data. This field is only used when the confidentiality flags B or C are used in the previous field
15
Footnote
A
250
Free note on the data

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1668/annex/II/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1668/annex-II/division-2
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