Article 9 Detailed arrangements and content of quality reports

Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) an annual quality report on the use of information and communication technologies domain.

The annual quality report shall contain quality-related data and metadata, information on the accuracy and reliability of the survey and describe changes in basic concepts and definitions that affect the comparability over time and across countries. The quality report shall also include information on the compliance with the model questionnaire and on changes in questionnaire design that affect the comparability over time and across countries.

The annual quality report shall be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) within 3 months of the deadline for transmitting the microdata.

The quality report shall be provided through the single entry point to allow the Commission (Eurostat) to retrieve the data by electronic means.