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 Persons (No.) in Households
Characteristic Description
Name Persons (No.) in Households by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024), Sex (private household representative), Dimension (private household) and Nationality (Country of the representative); 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)
  • Sex (private household representative)
  • Dimension (private household)
  • Nationality (Country of the representative)
Concepts
  • 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.
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD:  Group of persons who has their usual residence in the housing unit or the independent person occupying a housing unit.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD REPRESENTATIVE:  Household member considered as such by the other members, living in the dwelling, legally of age (18 years old or over) and, preferably, being the owner of the dwelling, i.e., having the ownership title or the rental contract in his/her name.
  • 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.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 10/04/2024


information presented in 18/5/2024