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 Ageing ratio (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Ageing ratio (No.) by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2013) and Sex; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2011
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2013)
  • Sex
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).
  • AGEING INDEX:  The ratio of the number of elderly persons of an age when they are generally economically inactive (aged 65 and over) to the number of young persons (from 0 to 14).
  • PLACE OF USUAL RESIDENCE:  Place in which a person normally spends the daily period of rest (regardless of temporary absences for purposes of leisure, holiday, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment, or others) and where the person lives or intends to live for the most part of the year, taking the last 12 months as reference.
  • 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.
Formule AR=[(P(65, +)/ P(0, 14)]*10^n

P(65, +)=Resident population with 65 and more years old.
P(0, 14)=Resident population aged between 0 and 14 years old.
n=2.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/11/2022


information presented in 17/7/2024