• Data reference period
• Geographic localization (NUTS - 2002)

• AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE:  A banking terminal that accepts deposits and dispenses cash. ATMs are activated by inserting a cash or credit card that contains the user's account number and PIN on a magnetic stripe. The ATM calls up the bank's computers to verify the balance, dispenses the cash and then transmits a completed transaction notice.
• 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).
• AVERAGE POPULATION:  The average population during a calendar year, generally calculated as the arithmetic mean of the population on two consecutive years.
• MULTIBANCO:  Brand of the integrated network of ATMs and Point of sales that offers more than 60 services, from cash withdrawals to payments for services, cell phone top-ups, transfers, consultations, purchases, among others.

Operations on Automated Teller Machines/ Annual average resident population