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 Private households (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Private households (No.) by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024), Sex (private household representative), Age group (private household representative) and Marital status (private household representative); Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2021
First available period 2021
Last available period 2021
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2024)
  • Sex (private household representative)
  • Age group (private household representative)
  • Marital status (private household representative)
Concepts
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD:  Group of persons who have their usual residence in the housing unit or the independent person occupying a housing unit.
  • 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.
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD REPRESENTATIVE:  Household member considered as such by the other members, living in the dwelling, legally of age (18 years old or over) and, preferably, being the owner of the dwelling, i.e., having the ownership title or the rental contract in his/her name.
  • 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).
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 19/03/2024


information presented in 17/7/2024