# 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 3.11: Data value

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

Monetary data is expressed in millions of national currency units or in euro (for countries members of the Euro-zone).
In order to be precise about the nature of the data, it is necessary to distinguish the following cases:
data equal to zero (coded ‘0’): real values of zero only (the phenomenon it describes does not exist in the country),
missing data (coded ‘m’): this is data which is currently missing but the Member State intends to supply when available,
data not available: This is data which is not collected in a Member State. In this case the corresponding record is not sent.
By default, if an entire dimension (a variable, a NUTS 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’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/1668/annex/II/division/3/division/3.11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-1668/annex-II/division-3/division-3.11
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