Definition: Timeliness

Category: Memobust Glossary

Definition 1: The length of time between the event or phenomenon the statistical outputs describe and their availability.

Definition 2: The lapse of time between the end of a reference period and availability of the data. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/memobust-glossary-pdf-file_en
Source:
Eurostat, "Memobust Glossary" (part of the Memobust Handbook on Methodology of Modern Business Statistics), ESSnet "Memobust", March 2014
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