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 Population (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Population (No.) by Place of residence at the Census moment (Series 1864 - 2021), Sex and Marital status; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - historical series
First available period 1864
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence at the Census moment (Series 1864 - 2021)
  • Sex
  • Marital status
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.
  • PLACE OF USUAL RESIDENCE:  Living quarter that is the residence of at least one household for most of the year or to which the household has transferred all or most of its belongings.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • POPULATION:  Group of people who are resident or present in a dwelling at the time of reference and who are attached to a territory.
  • 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).
  • MARITAL STATUS:  A person's legal situation consisting of the qualities defining his or her personal status in terms of family relations figuring in the register. It comprises the following situations: single, married, widow(er), divorced.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 27/02/2025


information presented in 15/7/2025