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 Resident population (No.) in conventional dwellings
Characteristic Description
Name Resident population (No.) in conventional dwellings by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024) and Size class of residents; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2021
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024)
  • Size class of residents
Concepts
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
  • RESIDENT IN THE DWELLING:  Person who is present at the accommodation in the reference period and the accommodation is his/her main residence or, if he/she is absent, he/she does not permanently occupy any other accommodation.
  • CONVENTIONAL DWELLING:  Dwelling consisting on a room or suite of rooms and its accessories in a permanent building or structurally separated part thereof, having a separate access to a street (direct or via a garden or grounds) or to a common space within the building (staircase, passage, gallery and so on).
  • HOUSEHOL DWELLING OF USUAL RESIDENCE:  Occupied household dwelling  that  is the usual or main residence of at least one household.
  • PLACE OF USUAL RESIDENCE:  Place in which a person normally spends the daily period of rest (regardless of temporary absences for purposes of leisure, holiday, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment, or others) and where the person lives or intends to live for the most part of the year, taking the last 12 months as reference.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Contagem
Last update date 10/04/2024


information presented in 15/5/2024