ANNEX ISupplementary provisions
ANNEX I Structure of quality reports Arrangements and structure for providing metadata Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with reference metadata in accordance with the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure, as defined in Commission Recommendation 2009/498/EC ( 1 ) for the European Statistical System. Member States shall provide the required metadata (including quality) in accordance with an exchange standard specified by the Commission (Eurostat). The metadata shall be provided to Eurostat through the single entry point or in such a form that the Commission (Eurostat) can retrieve it by electronic means. Contents of the metadata and quality reports The report shall include the following concepts and cover internal tourism (Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 692/2011) as well as national tourism (Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 692/2011): (1) Relevance , including completeness as compared to user needs and data completeness as compared to the requirements and recommendations laid down in Articles 2, 3, 4 and 10 of Regulation (EU) No 692/2011. (2) Accuracy , including coverage error (over-coverage and under-coverage), recall bias, classification error, item and unit non-response (broken down by type of unit non-response), imputation rate (for Section 2 of Annex II), sampling error and coefficients of variation for a set of leading indicators and breakdowns (as well as a description of the formulae or algorithm used to calculate the coefficients of variation) and data revision (policy, practice, impact on leading indicators). (3) Timeliness , including information on the calendar for the production process until the publication of the results (first results, final and complete results). (4) Punctuality , including information on the dates of transmission of the data to the Commission (Eurostat) as compared to the deadlines specified in Article 9(4) of Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 for all data deliveries relating to the reference year. (5) Accessibility and clarity , including information on the release calendar for the main publications (paper and online) relating to the reference periods of the reference year. (6) Comparability , including comparability between geographical areas, over time (break in series) and between statistical domains. (7) Coherence , including coherence within the domain with data from other sources, coherence with other statistical domains, coherence between annual and infra-annual statistics. (8) Cost and burden , including (where available) a quantitative/monetary and qualitative indication of the cost associated with the collection and production and the burden on respondents, and a description of recent or planned measures to improve cost efficiency and/or reduce respondent burden. (9) Metadata relating to statistical presentation and statistical processing , including information on (where applicable) concepts, definitions and classifications used, sources used, population frame, target population, frequency of data collection, survey type and data collection methods, scope (and limitations to the scope), sampling design and methodology, grossing-up procedures, treatment of confidential data and disclosure control. ( 1 ) OJ L 168, 30.6.2009, p. 50 .