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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, Degree of urbanization, Regular consumption of prescribed medications (Yes/No) and Type of chronic disease; Quinquennial
Regularity Quinquennial
Source Statistics Portugal, National health survey 2019
First available period 2019
Last available period 2019
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Degree of urbanization
  • Regular consumption of prescribed medications (Yes/No)
  • Type of chronic disease
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).
  • LONG-STANDING HEALTH PROBLEM:  Health problem that lasts or is expected to last for six months or more.
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD:  A group of people living at the same dwelling, with either "de jure" or "de facto" family relationships,occupying the all or part of a dwelling; or a single person that fully or partly accupies a dwelling.
  • CHRONIC DISEASE:  Disease that is predictably permanent and needs medical intervention to follow and control it.
  • 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) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 02/09/2021


information presented in 17/7/2024