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 Homeless resident population (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Homeless resident population (No.) by Place of residence at Census date [2021] (NUTS - 2013), Sex and Age group (quinquennial); 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 - 2013)
  • Sex
  • Age group (quinquennial)
Concepts
  • HOMELESS PERSON:  Person who, at the census moment, lives in the street or other public spaces such as gardens, metro stations, bus stops, bridges, viaducts and building arcades, among others, or who, despite staying overnight in a night shelter, is forced to spend several hours of the day in a public place.
  • 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.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
  • 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.
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference .
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/11/2022


information presented in 5/5/2024