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 Resident population with 15 and more years old (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Resident population with 15 and more years old (No.) by Sex, Activity status and Consumption of medicines prescribed in the 2 weeks preceding the interview (Yes/ No); Quinquennial
Regularity Quinquennial
Source Statistics Portugal, National health survey (series 2014)
First available period 2019
Last available period 2019
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Activity status
  • Consumption of medicines prescribed in the 2 weeks preceding the interview (Yes/ No)
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).
  • PRESCRIPTION:  -
  • 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.
  • MEDICINE:  Substance or association of substances which have curative or preventive properties of diseases and their signs or symptoms, with the goal of establishing a medical diagnosis or restoring, correcting or modifying the physiological functions.
  • LABOUR FORCE STATUS:  The status of an individual with respect to his/her economic activity during the reference period, liable of being considered active or inactive.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 28/08/2020


information presented in 17/7/2024