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1. For the purpose of this Regulation, the following quality assessment dimensions shall apply to the data to be transmitted:

— ‘relevance’ shall refer to the degree to which statistics meet the current and potential needs of users,

— ‘accuracy’ shall refer to the closeness of estimates to the unknown true values,

— ‘timeliness’ and ‘punctuality’ shall refer to the delay between the reference period and the availability of results,

— ‘accessibility’ and ‘clarity’ shall refer to the conditions under and modalities by which users can obtain, use and interpret data,

— ‘comparability’ shall refer to the measurement of the impact of differences in applied statistical concepts and measurement tools and procedures when statistics are compared between geographical areas, sectoral domains, or over time, and — ‘coherence’ shall refer to the adequacy of the data to be reliably combined in different ways and for various uses.

2. Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with a report on the quality of the data transmitted. In this context, Member States shall report on the extent to which the chosen data sources and methodology meet the essential features of population and housing censuses as defined in Article 2(i).

3. In applying the quality assessment dimensions laid down in paragraph 1 to the data covered by this Regulation, the modalities and structure of the quality reports shall be defined in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 8(2). The Commission (Eurostat) shall assess the quality of the data transmitted.

4. The Commission (Eurostat), in cooperation with the competent authorities of the Member States, shall provide methodological recommendations designed to ensure the quality of the data and metadata produced, acknowledging, in particular, the Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations for the 2010 Censuses of Population and Housing.