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 Conventional dwellings (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Conventional dwellings (No.) by Geographic location at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024), Occupacy status, Type of utilization and Size classe dimension of living quarter; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2021
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic location at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024)
  • Occupacy status
  • Type of utilization
  • Size classe dimension of living quarter
Concepts
  • HOUSEHOLD DWELLING :  Dwelling that is normally intended to accommodate only one family, on the condition that it is not being used for other purposes at the period of reference.
  • DWELLING:  Separate and independent place which, by the way it was built, rebuilt, enlarged, transformed or is being used, is intended for housing with the condition that it is not being used for other purposes at the time of reference: by separate it is meant that it is surrounded by conventional walls or other type, is covered and allows a person or group of persons to sleep, prepare meals or shelter from the weather separately from other members of the community; by independent it is meant that its occupants do not have to cross other accommodations to enter or leave the accommodation where they live.
  • 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).
  • BUILDING:  Permanent construction, endowed with independent access, covered and limited by exterior walls or dividing walls which extend from the foundations to the roof, whether designed for human use or other purposes.
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Contagem
Last update date 19/03/2024


information presented in 24/10/2025