# Commission Regulation (EC) No 834/2009 of 11 September 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 716/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on the structure and activity of foreign affiliates, as regards the quality reports (Text with EEA relevance), Division 3: QUALITY CRITERIA

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

Data transmitted by Member States shall be assessed against the following quality criteria:
3.1. Relevance: refers to the degree to which statistics meet current and potential needs of the users;
3.2. Accuracy: refers to the closeness of estimates to the unknown true values;
3.3. Coherence: refers to the adequacy of the data to be reliably combined in different ways and for various uses;
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;
3.5. Timeliness: refers to the period between the availability of the information and the event or phenomenon it describes;
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);
3.7. Accessibility and clarity: refer to the conditions and modalities by which users can obtain, use and interpret data.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/834/annex/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-834/annex/division-3
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