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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) ‘statistical unit’ means an entity on which data are collected and statistics are compiled;

(2) ‘enterprise’ means the smallest combination of legal units as defined in Council Regulation (EEC) No 696/93 ; this includes non-market producers and other institutional units that belong to the general government sector;

(3) ‘social enterprise’ means a private law entity, which can be established in a variety of legal forms, that provides goods and services for the market in an entrepreneurial way and in accordance with the principles and features of the social economy, having social or environmental objectives as the reason for its commercial activity;

(4) ‘local unit’ means an enterprise, or a part thereof, that is situated in a geographically identified place as defined in Regulation (EEC) No 696/93;

(5) ‘resident enterprise’ means an enterprise, that carries out economic activities contributing to the gross domestic product (GDP) as laid down in Chapter 1 of Annex A to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council ;

(6) ‘resident local unit’ means a local unit that carries out economic activities contributing to the GDP as laid down in Chapter 1 of Annex A to Regulation (EU) No 549/2013;

(7) ‘employee’ means any person irrespective of nationality, residency or time worked in a Member State who has a direct employment relationship with an employer, established by a formal contract or an informal agreement, and who receives remuneration, irrespective of the type of work performed, the number of hours worked (full-time or part-time) or the duration of the contract or agreement (fixed or indefinite, including seasonal); the remuneration of an employee can take the form of wages or a salary, and includes bonuses, pay for piecework and shift work, allowances, fees, commission and remuneration in kind;

(8) ‘employer’ means an enterprise or a local unit that has a direct employment relationship with an employee, established by a formal contract or an informal agreement;

(9) ‘domain’ means one or several data sets that cover particular topics;

(10) ‘topic’ means the content of the information to be compiled, with each topic covering one or more detailed topics;

(11) ‘detailed topic’ means the detailed content of the information to be compiled related to a topic, where each detailed topic covers one or more variables;

(12) ‘variable’ means a characteristic of a unit or of a set of units that can assume more than one of a set of values;

(13) ‘breakdown’ means a predefined discrete, exhaustive and mutually exclusive set of values which can be assigned to a variable characterising statistical units;

(14) ‘microdata’ means individual observations or measurements of characteristics of statistical units without a direct identifier;

(15) ‘aggregated data’ means data concerning a set of several statistical units;

(16) ‘statistical population’ means the set of statistical units about which information is required;

(17) ‘sampling frame’ means a list, map or other specification of the units which determine a statistical population that is to be completely enumerated or sampled;

(18) ‘sample’ means a subset of a sampling frame whose elements are selected based on a process with a known probability of selection, designed so as to allow for deriving valid estimations for the statistical population;

(19) ‘respondent’ means the unit that supplies data;

(20) ‘statistical survey’ means collecting data from a sample of respondents, which can be extrapolated to the statistical population by using appropriate statistical methods;

(21) ‘administrative data’ mean data generated by a non-statistical source, usually a register held by a public body, the main aim of which is not the provision of statistics;

(22) ‘other sources’ mean data that derive from sources other than the ones listed in Article 3(1), points (a), (b) and (c), such as websites and databases, the main aim of which is not the provision of official statistics;

(23) ‘statistical classification’ means an ordered list, with one or more levels of detail, of related though mutually exclusive categories used to structure information in a given statistical domain according to its similarities;

(24) ‘reference period’ means the time interval to which statistics refer;

(25) ‘metadata’ means information that is needed to use and interpret statistics and that describes the data in a structured way;

(26) ‘pre-checked data’ means data verified by Member States based on agreed common validation rules;

(27) ‘quality report’ means a report conveying information about the quality of a statistical product or process;

(28) ‘gender pay gap’ means the difference in average gross hourly earnings of male and female employees expressed as a percentage of the average gross hourly earnings of the male employees.