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 Resident population with 15 and more years old (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Resident population with 15 and more years old (No.) by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2013), Sex, Age group and Activity status; 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 the Census moment [2021] (NUTS - 2013)
  • Sex
  • Age group
  • Activity status
Concepts
  • LABOUR FORCE STATUS:  The status of an individual with respect to his/her economic activity during the reference period, liable of being considered active or inactive.
  • 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.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • 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:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 26/05/2023


information presented in 5/11/2025