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 Present population (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Present population (No.) by Place of residence, Sex and Marital status; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - historical series
First available period 1864
Last available period 1950
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence
  • Sex
  • Marital status
Concepts
  • PRESENT POPULATION:  Comprises persons who, at the time census day - 00:00 hours on the day of reference - are at a dwelling even if they do not reside there, or who, even if they are not there at the time, arrive by 12:00 hours on that day.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Count
Last update date 05/01/2009


information presented in 26/11/2024