Definitions
Article 2
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: 1. ‘household’ means a person living alone or a group of people who live together in the same private dwelling and share expenditure, including the joint provision of the essentials of living; this definition does not cover collective households such as hospitals, care or residential homes, prisons, military barracks, religious institutions, boarding houses or hostels. 2. ‘usual residence’ means the place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage or in default, the place of legal or registered residence. Only the following persons shall be considered to be usual residents of the geographical area in question: (a) those who have lived in their place of usual residence for a continuous period of at least 12 months before the reference date; or (b) those who arrived in their place of usual residence in the 12 months before the reference date with the intention of staying there for at least one year. Where the circumstances referred to in points (a) or (b) cannot be established, ‘usual residence’ shall mean the place of legal or registered residence. 3. ‘microdata’ means non-aggregated observations or measurements of characteristics of individual units. 4. ‘metadata’ means data defining and describing other data as well as statistical business processes.