Division 3 QUALITY CRITERIA

Data transmitted by Member States shall be assessed against the following quality criteria:

1. 3.1.

   Relevance: refers to the degree to which statistics meet current and potential needs of the users;

2. 3.2.

   Accuracy: refers to the closeness of estimates to the unknown true values;

3. 3.3.

   Coherence: refers to the adequacy of the data to be reliably combined in different ways and for various uses;

4. 3.4.

   Comparability: refers to the measurement of the impact of differences in applied statistical concepts, measurement tools and procedures where statistics are compared between geographical areas, sectoral domains or over time;

5. 3.5.

   Timeliness: refers to the period between the availability of the information and the event or phenomenon it describes;

6. 3.6.

   Punctuality: refers to the delay between the date of the release of the data and the target date (the date by which the data should have been delivered);

7. 3.7.

   Accessibility and clarity: refer to the conditions and modalities by which users can obtain, use and interpret data.