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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), Highest completed level of education and Type of private household (Based on family nuclei - Census 2021); 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)
  • Highest completed level of education
  • Type of private household (Based on family nuclei - Census 2021)
Concepts
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • 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).
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD:  Group of persons who have their usual residence in the housing unit or the independent person occupying a housing unit.
  • 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.
  • COMPLETE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL:  Higher level of education that has been successfully completed, or for which equivalence has been obtained, and which confers a certificate or diploma.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 19/03/2024


information presented in 12/12/2025