Category Definition Structural metadata concept that classifies structural metadata objects. Context The Category can link to any identifiable object and can help discovery of structural metadata. In a data dissemination or data collection system the Category will probably link to a Dataflow or Metadataflow to support data or metadata discovery or data or metadata collection management. The Category can link to multiple identifiable objects and any identifiable object can link to multiple categories, possibly in different category schemes. The link between a single category and a single identifiable object is contained in a Categorisation. Concept ID CATEGORY Related Category scheme Dataflow Metadataflow Source SDMX (2016) () Category scheme Definition Descriptive information for a subdivision of categories into groups based on characteristics, which the objects have in common. Context The Category Scheme comprises a hierarchy of categories which may include any type of useful classification for the organisation of data and metadata. Concept ID CATEGORY_SCH Related Category Item scheme Source SDMX (2016) () Civil status Definition Legal, conjugal status of each individual in relation to the marriage laws or customs of the country. Context The civil status is often referred to as marital status and represented through codes of the respective code list. Type concept Concept ID CIVIL_STATUS Recommended representation Code list Codelist ID CL_CIVIL_STATUS Source SDMX (2016) () Other link(s) Code list CIVIL_STATUS () Classification system Definition Arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics which the objects have in common.
Related terms Data revision Data revision – practice Data revision – studies Source SDMX (2016) () Data revision – practice Definition Information on the data revision practice. Context This metadata element is used to provide documentation regarding the source data used and the way they are adjusted, in order to give compilers the possibility of incorporating new and more accurate information into estimates, thus improving their accuracy without introducing breaks in the time series. It also describes the revision status of available data. Data may also be subject to regular or ad hoc revisions as a result of the introduction of new classifications, compilation frameworks and methodologies result in the compilation of historical data that replace previously released data. Whether or not such changes constitute an actual “revision” or the compilation of a “new” series is a matter of judgment to be done by the statistical agency. Type Cross-domain concept Concept ID REV_PRACTICE Recommended representation Free text Related terms Data revision Data revision – policy Data revision – studies Source SDMX (2016) () Data revision – studies Definition Information about data revision studies and analyses. Context Description of periodic studies related to data revisions. These studies can contain quantitative measures of the effects of revisions, such as mean revision and revision variance in estimates. Type Cross-domain concept Concept ID REV_STUDY Recommended representation Free text Related terms Data revision Data revision – policy Data revision – practice Source SDMX (2016) () Data set Definition Organised collection of data defined by a Data Structure Definition (DSD). Context Within SDMX, a data set can be understood as a collection of similar data, sharing a structure, which extends over a period of time. The data set can be represented physically in three fundamental forms:
Type concept Concept ID PROF_IMP Recommended representation Free text Related Professionalism Professionalism – code of conduct Professionalism – methodology Professionalism – statistical commentary Source SDMX (2016) () Professionalism – methodology Definition Elements providing assurances that the choices of sources and statistical techniques as well as decisions about dissemination are informed solely by statistical considerations. Type concept Concept ID PROF_METH Recommended representation Free text Related terms Professionalism Professionalism – code of conduct Professionalism – impartiality Professionalism – statistical commentary Source SDMX (2016) () Professionalism – statistical commentary Definition Elements providing assurances that the statistical entity is entitled to comment on erroneous interpretation and misuse of statistics. Type Cross-domain concept Concept ID PROF_STAT_COM Recommended representation Free text Related terms Professionalism Professionalism – code of conduct Professionalism – impartiality Professionalism – methodology Source SDMX (2016) () Proportion of common units Definition Proportion of units covered by both the survey and the administrative sources in relation to the total number of units in the survey. Context This indicator is used when administrative data are combined with survey data in such a way that data on unit level are obtained from both the survey and one or more administrative sources (some variables come from the survey and other variables from the administrative data) or when data for part of the units come from survey data and for another part of the units from one or more administrative sources.