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 Overcrowding rate (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Overcrowding rate (%) by Age group; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Statistics on income and living conditions
First available period 2013
Last available period 2024
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Age group
Concepts
  • 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.
  • OVERCROWDED HOUSEHOLD:  Household where the number of rooms is not sufficient for the household's dimension and demographic composition.
  • 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.
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 30/05/2025


information presented in 18/10/2025