17.6.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 151/1 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 519/2010 of 16 June 2010 adopting the programme of the statistical data and of the metadata for population and housing censuses provided for by Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses ('), and in particular Article 5(3) thereof, Whereas: (1) Pursuant to Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008, the Commission should adopt a programme of the sta- tistical data and of the metadata for the population and housing censuses to be transmitted to the Commission. (2)  In order to ensure data from the population and housing censuses conducted in the Member States are comparable, and to allow reliable Union-wide overviews to be drawn up, this programme should be the same in all Member States. (3)  In particular, it is necessary to define hypercubes which are the same in all Member States, the special cell values and flags that the Member States can use in these hypercubes as well as the metadata on the topics. (4)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses as regards the technical specifications of the topics and of their breakdowns (?) lays down the technical specifications for the census topics and their breakdowns to be applied to the data to be sent to the Commission for the reference year 2011. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee, () OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 14. OJ L 329, 15.12.2009, p. 29. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Subject matter This Regulation establishes the programme of the statistical data and the metadata for the population and housing censuses to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) for the reference year 2011. Article 2 Definitions For the purpose of this Regulation, the definitions and specifi- cations in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009 shall apply. The following definitions shall also apply: 1. ‘total population’ of a well defined geographical area means all persons whose usual residence, as defined in Article 2(d) of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008, is located in that geographical area; 2. ‘hypercube’ means a multidimensional cross tabulation of breakdowns which contains a cell value for the measurement of each category of each breakdown cross- tabulated by each category of any other breakdown used in that hypercube; 3. ‘principal marginal distribution’ means a subset of a given hypercube which results from the cross tabulation of some but not all of the breakdowns of the hypercube; 4. ‘primary cell' means any cell which is part of at least one principal marginal distribution in a given hypercube. In hypercubes for which no principal marginal distribution is defined all cells are primary cells; 5. ‘secondary cell means a hypercube cell that is not a primary cell in a given hypercube; 6. ‘cell value’ means the information transmitted in a hypercube cell. A cell value can be either a ‘numerical cell value’ or a ‘special cell value’;