Census 2021 round (cens

1.1. Contact organisation

State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania)

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Population Statistics Division

1.3. Contact name

Confidential because of GDPR

1.4. Contact person function

Confidential because of GDPR

1.5. Contact mail address

29 Gedimino Ave, LT-01500 Vilnius, Lithuania

1.6. Contact email address

Confidential because of GDPR

1.7. Contact phone number

Confidential because of GDPR

1.8. Contact fax number

Confidential because of GDPR

2.1. Metadata last certified

16 December 2024

2.2. Metadata last posted

16 December 2024

2.3. Metadata last update

16 December 2024

3.1. Data description

The data present the results of the 2021 EU census on population and housing, following Regulation (EC) 763/2008; Regulation (EU) 2017/543; Regulation (EU) 2017/712 and Regulation (EU) 2017/881. The Lithuanian Population and Housing Census 2021 is fully register-based.

3.1.1. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on census methodology

No impact due to COVID-19 pandemic on the census methodology.

3.2. Classification system

The following classification systems were used:

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 2021)
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED11)
International standard classification of occupations (ISCO-08)
Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev 2)

3.3. Coverage - sector

Not applicable.

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

The information is given separately for each census topic.

3.4.1. Statistical concepts and definitions - Usual residence

‘Usual residence’ means the place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage.

The following persons are considered to be usual residents of the geographical area in question:

(i) those who have lived in their place of usual residence for a continuous period of at least 12 months before the reference date

(ii) those who arrived in their place of usual residence during the 12 months before the reference date with the intention of staying there for at least one year

Where the circumstances described in point (i) or (ii) cannot be established, ‘usual residence’ shall mean the place of legal or registered residence.

3.4.2. Statistical concepts and definitions - Sex

Male, female.

3.4.3. Statistical concepts and definitions - Age

The age reached in completed years at the reference date.

3.4.4. Statistical concepts and definitions - Marital status

Marital status is defined as the (legal) conjugal status of an individual in relation to the marriage laws of the country (that is the de jure status). A person is classified according to his/her most recently acquired legal marital status at the reference date. Mariage is regulated by the third book of Civil Clode of the Republic of Lithuania - Family Law.

Legal age for marriage is 18 years. The court has the right to reduce the marital age of a person who wants to marry under the simplified procedure, but not more than two years. In the case of pregnancy, the court may allow a person who has not reached the age of sixteen to marry.

Same-sex marriage or partnership is not legally recognised.

3.4.5. Statistical concepts and definitions - Family status

The family nucleus is defined in a narrow sense; that is as two or more persons who belong to the same household and who are related as husband and wife, as partners in a registered partnership, as partners in a consensual union, or as parent and child. Thus, a family comprises a couple without children or a couple with one or more children, or a lone parent with one or more children. This family concept limits relationships between children and adults to direct (first-degree) relationships, that is, between parents and children.

3.4.6. Statistical concepts and definitions - Household status

Private households are identified using the ‘household- dwelling concept’. The household-dwelling concept considers all persons living in a housing unit to be members of the same household, such that there is one household per occupied housing unit.

3.4.7. Statistical concepts and definitions - Current activity status

Current activity status is the current relationship of a person to economic activity, based on a reference period of one week, which is the last seven days prior to enumeration.In Lithuania, minors can start working from the age of 14, but depending on whether they fall into the age group of children (persons aged 14 to 16) or teenagers (persons aged 16 to 18), different restrictions apply to the nature of their work, work and rest time, safety and health, as well as the conclusion of an employment contract.

3.4.8. Statistical concepts and definitions - Occupation

Occupation refers to the type of work done in a job. ‘Type of work’ is described by the main tasks and duties of the work.

Persons are classified according to the occupation they had during their most recent employment. The categories included in the breakdown 'occupation' correspond to the major groups of the ISCO-08 (COM) classification.

Persons under the age of 15 years, as well as persons aged 15 or over that were:

not economically active during the reference week, or
unemployed, never worked before (i.e. they have never been employed in their lives)

are classified under 'not applicable'.

The allocation of a person within the breakdowns of the topics 'Occupation', 'Industry' and 'Status in employment' is based on the same job.

3.4.9. Statistical concepts and definitions - Industry

Industry (branch of economic activity) refers to the kind of production or activity of the establishment or similar unit in which the job of an employed person is located.

Persons doing more than one job is allocated an industry (branch of economic activity) based on their main job, which is to be identified according to the income received.
The breakdown by industry is available for persons aged 15 or over that were employed during the reference week.

3.4.10. Statistical concepts and definitions - Status in employment

An ‘employee’ is a person who works in a ‘paid employment’ job, that is a job where the explicit or implicit contract of employment gives the incumbent a basic remuneration, which is independent of the revenue of the unit for which he/ she works. An ‘employer’ is a person who, working on his or her own account or with a small number of partners, holds a ‘self- employment’ job and, in this capacity, on a continuous basis (including the reference week) has engaged one or more persons to work for him/her as ‘employees’.

3.4.11. Statistical concepts and definitions - Place of work

The location of the place of work is the geographical area in which a currently employed person does his/her job.

The place of work of those mostly working at home is the same as their usual residence. The term ‘working’ refers to work done as an ‘employed person’ as defined under the topic ‘Current activity status’. ‘Mostly’ working at home means that the person spends all or most of the time working at home, and less, or no, time in a place of work other than at home.

Information on persons who do not have a fixed place of work but who report to a fixed address at the beginning of their work period (for example bus drivers, airline crew, operators of street market stalls that are not removed at the end of the workday) refer to that address. This group may also include individuals who travel to work, on a regular basis, across the border to a neighbouring country. Breakdown ‘No fixed place of work (inside or outside the Member State)’ includes all persons without fixed place of work but will also refer to persons such as sailors, fishermen and offshore workers for whom it may not be possible to allocate the place of work.

3.4.12. Statistical concepts and definitions - Educational attainment

Educational attainment refers to the highest level successfully completed in the educational system of the country where the education was received. Persons under 15 are classified under Not applicable.

ISCED level 05 does not exist in Lithuania.

3.4.13. Statistical concepts and definitions - Size of the locality

A locality is defined as a distinct population cluster that is an area defined by population living in neighboring or contiguous buildings.

Such buildings may be either:

(a) form a continuous built-up area with a clearly recognizable street formation; or
(b) though not part of such a built-up area, comprise a group of buildings to which a locally recognized place name is uniquely attached; or
(c) though not meeting either of the above two criteria, constitute a group of buildings, none of which is separated from its nearest neighbor by more than 200 meters.

3.4.14. Statistical concepts and definitions - Place of birth

Information on the ‘Place of birth’ is collected according to the place in which the birth took place, on the basis of international boundaries existing on 1 January 2021.

3.4.15. Statistical concepts and definitions - Country of citizenship

Citizenship is defined as the particular legal bond between an individual and his/her State, acquired by birth or naturalization, whether by declaration, option, marriage or other means according to the national legislation. A person with two or more citizenships is allocated to only one country of citizenship, to be determined in the following order of precedence:

reporting country
if the person does not have the citizenship of the reporting country: other EU Member State
if the person does not have the citizenship of another EU Member State: other country outside the European Union.

3.4.16. Statistical concepts and definitions - Year of arrival in the country

The year of arrival is the calendar year in which a person most recently established usual residence in the country.

The data for 2021 refer to 1 January 2021.

3.4.17. Statistical concepts and definitions - Residence one year before

The relationship between the current place of usual residence and the place of usual residence one year prior to the census.

For all persons that have changed their usual residence more than once within the year prior to the reference date, the previous place of usual residence is the last usual residence from which they moved to their current place of usual residence.

3.4.18. Statistical concepts and definitions - Housing arrangements

The topic ‘Housing arrangements’ covers the whole population and refers to the type of housing in which a person usually resides at the time of the census. This covers all persons who are usual residents in different types of living quarters, or who do not have a usual residence and stay temporarily in some type of living quarters, or who are roofless, sleeping rough or in emergency shelters, when the census is taken.

'Other housing units' are huts, cabins, shacks, shanties, caravans, houseboats, barns, mills, caves or any other shelter used for human habitation at the time of the census, irrespective if it was designed for human habitation.
'Collective living quarters' are premises which are designed for habitation by large groups of individuals or several households and which are used as the usual residence of at least one person at the time of the census.
'Occupied conventional dwellings', 'other housing units' and 'collective living quarters' together represent ‘living quarters'. Any 'living quarter' must be the usual residence of at least one person.

The sum of occupied conventional dwellings and other housing units represents 'housing units'.
The homeless (persons who are not usual residents in any living quarter category) can be persons living in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters (primary homelessness).

3.4.19. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of family nucleus

The family nucleus is defined in a narrow sense; that is as two or more persons who belong to the same household and who are related as husband and wife, as partners in a registered partnership, as partners in a consensual union, or as parent and child. Thus a family comprises a couple without children or a couple with one or more children, or a lone parent with one or more children. This family concept limits relationships between children and adults to direct (first-degree) relationships, that is, between parents and children.

Child (son/daughter) refers to a blood, step- or adopted son or daughter (regardless of age or marital status) who has usual residence in the household of at least one of the parents, and who has no partner or own children in the same household. Foster children are not included. A son or daughter who lives with a spouse, with a registered partner, with a partner in a consensual union, or with one or more own children, is not considered to be a child. A child who alternates between two households (for instance if his or her parents are divorced) shall consider the one where he or she spends the majority of the time as his or her household. Where an equal amount of time is spent with both parents the household shall be the one where the child is found at the time on census night.

The term couple shall include married couples, couples in registered partnerships, and couples who live in a consensual union.

Registered partnerships are reported only by countries that have a legal framework regulating partnerships that:

(a) lead to legal conjugal obligations between two persons;
(b) are not marriages;
(c) prevent persons to commit themselves into multiple partnerships with different partners.

Two persons are considered to be partners in a 'consensual union' when they

belong to the same household, and
have a marriage-like relationship with each other, and
are not married to or in a registered partnership with each other.

'Skip-generation households' (households consisting of a grandparent or grandparents and one or more grandchildren, but no parent of those grandchildren) are not included in the definition of a family.

3.4.20. Statistical concepts and definitions - Size of family nucleus

The family nucleus is defined in a narrow sense; that is as two or more persons who belong to the same household and who are related as husband and wife, as partners in a registered partnership, as partners in a consensual union, or as parent and child. Thus a family comprises a couple without children or a couple with one or more children, or a lone parent with one or more children. This family concept limits relationships between children and adults to direct (first-degree) relationships, that is, between parents and children.

3.4.21. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of private household

Private households are identified using ‘household- dwelling concept’. The household-dwelling concept considers all persons living in a housing unit to be members of the same household, such that there is one household per occupied housing unit.

3.4.22. Statistical concepts and definitions - Size of private household

'Primary homeless persons' are persons living in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters.

3.4.23. Statistical concepts and definitions - Tenure status of households

The topic 'Tenure status of households' refers to the arrangements under which a private household occupies all or part of a housing unit.

Households that are in the process of paying off a mortgage on the housing unit in which they live or purchasing their housing unit over time under other financial arrangements are classified under 'Households of which at least one member is the owner of the housing unit'.

Households of which at least one member is the owner of the housing unit and at least one member tenant of all or part of the housing unit are classified under category 'Households of which at least one member is the owner of the housing unit'.

3.4.24. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of living quarter

A living quarter is housing which is the usual residence of one or more persons.

'Conventional dwellings' are structurally separate and independent premises at fixed locations which are designed for permanent human habitation and are, at the reference date, either used as a residence, or vacant, or reserved for seasonal or secondary use.

'Separate' means surrounded by walls and covered by a roof or ceiling so that one or more persons can isolate themselves. 'Independent' means having direct access from a street or a staircase, passage, gallery or grounds.

'Collective living quarters' are premises which are designed for habitation by large groups of individuals or several households and which are used as the usual residence of at least one person at the time of the census.

'Occupied conventional dwellings', 'other housing units' and 'collective living quarters' together represent‘living quarters'. Any 'living quarter' must be the usual residence of at least one person.

3.4.25. Statistical concepts and definitions - Occupancy status

‘Occupied conventional dwellings’ are conventional dwellings which are the usual residence of one or more persons at the time of the census. ‘Unoccupied conventional dwellings’ are conventional dwellings which are not the usual residence of any person at the time of the census.

3.4.26. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of ownership

‘Type of ownership’ refers to the ownership of the dwelling and not to that of the land on which the dwelling stands. It shows the tenure arrangements under which the dwelling is occupied.

'Owner-occupied dwellings' are those where at least one occupant of the dwelling owns parts or the whole of the dwelling. 'Cooperative ownership' refers to ownership within the framework of a housing cooperative.

'Rented dwellings' are those where at least one occupant pays a rent for the occupation of the dwelling, and where no occupant owns parts or the whole of the dwelling.

3.4.27. Statistical concepts and definitions - Number of occupants

The number of occupants of a housing unit is the number of people for whom the housing unit is the usual residence.

3.4.28. Statistical concepts and definitions - Useful floor space

Useful floor space is defined as the floor space measured inside the outer walls excluding non-habitable cellars and attics and, in multi-dwelling buildings, all common spaces; or the total floor space of rooms falling under the concept of 'room'.

3.4.29. Statistical concepts and definitions - Number of rooms

Not applicable.

3.4.30. Statistical concepts and definitions - Density standard (floor space)

The topic ‘Density standard (floor space)’ relates the useful floor space in square meters to the number of occupants, as specified under the topic ‘Number of occupants’.

3.4.31. Statistical concepts and definitions - Density standard (number of rooms)

Not applicable.

3.4.32. Statistical concepts and definitions - Water supply system

Whether the conventional dwelling is equipped with piped water.

3.4.33. Statistical concepts and definitions - Toilet facilities

Whether the conventional dwelling is equipped with toilet facilities.

3.4.34. Statistical concepts and definitions - Bathing facilities

Whether the conventional dwelling is equipped with bathing facilities.

3.4.35. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of heating

Conventional dwelling is considered as centrally heated if heating is provided either from a community heating centre or from an installation built in the building or in the conventional dwelling, established for heating purposes, without regard to the source of energy.

3.4.36. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of building

The topic ‘Dwellings by type of building’ refers to the number of dwellings in the building in which the dwelling is placed.

3.4.37. Statistical concepts and definitions - Period of construction

The topic ‘Dwellings by period of construction’ refers to the year when the building in which the dwelling is placed was completed.

3.5. Statistical unit

The EU programme for the 2021 population and housing censuses includes data on persons, private households, family nuclei, conventional dwellings and living quarters.

3.6. Statistical population

The persons enumerated in the 2021 census are those who were usually resident in the territory of the reporting country at the census reference date.

3.7. Reference area

Data are available at different levels of geographical detail in EU countries: national, NUTS2/NUTS3 regions and local administrative units (LAU), grids.

3.8. Coverage - Time

Tthe census reference date is 1 of January 2021.

3.9. Base period

Not applicable.

Counts of statistical units should be expressed in numbers and where is needed rate per inhabitants enumerated in the country.

See the following sub-concepts.

5.1. EU census reference date

1 January 2021

5.2. National census reference date

1 January 2021

5.3. Differences between reference dates of national and EU census publications

No differences.

6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

Resolution No 1125 of 14 November 2018 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on the 2021 Population and Housing Census of the Republic of Lithuania (only in Lithuanian)

6.1.1. Bodies responsible

State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania)

6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

Resolution no. 1125 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, 2018 November 14 "On the 2021 population and housing census of the Republic of Lithuania"

The Law of Republic of Lithuania on reduction of administrative burden.

7.1. Confidentiality - policy

Confidentiality - Regulation (EU) 2017/712 Art 4 and 5

Data confidentiality is guaranteed by the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data and the Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania, establishing that the personal data collected during the Census may be used only for the production of statistical information. Individuals had the following rights established by the Law on Legal Protection of Personal Data: to familiarise themselves with their personal data managed by Statistics Lithuania, to be informed about the management of their personal data and have the right to demand that their personal data are corrected, destroyed or the management thereof is stopped. Statistics Lithuania was managing the personal data submitted following organisational and technical data protection measures.

Statistics Lithuania also has the internal documents on data protection. The above mentioned documents describe the special requirements for IT structure, working with confidential data and publishing of results.

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Confidentiality - Regulation (EU) 2017/712 Art 4 and 5

In the process of Census data processing and publication of statistical information, the confidentiality principle was adhered to – data were used only for statistical purposes, in a manner that would not enable the identification of a certain individual or household. Statistics Lithuania has a general guidelines for dealing with the confidentiality issues. For statistical disclosure control of 2021 Census data Statistics Lithuania used Targert record swapping and Cell Key (random noice) method.

8.1. Release calendar

Grid Census data are made available 12 months after the end of the reference period (Jannuary 2023)

Preliminary census 2021 national data published on 21 of December 2021. Final national census data published in 2022.

8.2. Release calendar access

National census 2021 information is published on the Official Statistics Portal (osp.stat.gov.lt), according to an approved statistical information release calendar and the Rules for the Preparation and Dissemination of Statistical Information of Statistics Lithuania.

8.3. Release policy - user access

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on its website respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably.

Decennial

See the following sub-concepts.

10.1. Dissemination format - News release

News releases were published according to an approved news release calendar. They are available on Official Statistics Portal

10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

Census information by population demographic, social, etnocultural and economic characteristics, households, families and housing was published in the e-publication “Results of the 2021 Population and Housing Census of the Republic of Lithuania”.

10.3. Dissemination format - online database

Database is available on Official Statistics Portal.

10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

Statistics Lithuania may, on the basis of contracts concluded with higher education institutions or research institutes, provide statistical data to researchers of these higher education institutions and research institutes to carry out specific statistical analyses for research purposes. Statistical data are provided in accordance with the provisions specified in the Description of Procedure for Data Depersonalisation and Pseudonymisation (only in Lithuanian).

Statistics Lithuania aiming to better satisfy the need for statistical information, provides users with opportunities to access open data sets with data on statistical observation units. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, in the section Open Data.

10.5. Dissemination format - other

Census results were aggregated to the level of a grid and provided for users through the Open Data Portal on the Official Statistics Portal. Also statistical information is provided upon individual requests.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Methodological documents are published only in Lithuanian in the Official Statistics Portal section Population and Housing Census.

10.7. Quality management - documentation

Methodological documents and legal documents are published in the Official Statistics Portal section Population and Housing Census.

11.1. Quality assurance

Quality of statistical information and its production process is ensured by the provisions of the European Statistics Code of Practice and ESS Quality Assurance Framework.

In 2007, a quality management system, conforming to the requirements of the international quality management system standard ISO 9001, was introduced at Statistics Lithuania. Main trends in activity of Statistics Lithuania aimed at quality management and continuous development in the institution are established in the Quality Policy.

Monitoring of the quality indicators of statistical processes and their results and self-evaluation of statistical survey managers is regularly carried out in order to identify areas which need improvement and to promptly eliminate shortcomings.

More information on assurance of quality of statistical information and its preparation is published in the Quality Management section on the Statistics Lithuania website.

11.2. Quality management - assessment

11.2.1. Coverage assessment

To ensure coverage of the Census 2021 'signs of life' were searched in 19 administrative data sources. Also demographic analysis, surveys data analysis and qualitative information were used.

11.2.2. Post-enumeration survey(s)

Post-enumeration survey was not conducted.

12.1. Relevance - User Needs

The main users of statistical information are State, municipal and scientific institutions, international organisations, the media, businessmen, students, whose needs are satisfied without a breach of the confidentiality principle. Results of the census are relevant for assessing the change in the number of households and families between the censuses and the distribution of the households and families in administrative territorial units. Results of the census allow better preparation of various programs: reforms in the social sphere or education, etc., preparation of short-term and long-term regional forecasts.

12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction

Since 2005, user opinion surveys have been conducted on a regular basis. The Official Statistics Portal traffic is monitored, website visitor opinion polls, general opinion poll on the products and services of Statistics Lithuania, target user group opinion polls and other surveys are conducted.

In 2007, the compilation of a user satisfaction index was launched. The said surveys are aimed at the assessment of the overall demand for and necessity of statistical information in general and specific statistical indicators in particular.

More information on user opinion surveys and results thereof are published in the User Surveys section on the Statistics Lithuania website.

12.3. Completeness

All indicators laid down in the regulation are published. All information produced in accordance with the Official Statistics Work Programme is published.

13.1. Accuracy - overall

Census is based on administrative data sources. Quality of data received by Statistics Lithuania is ensured by the holders of administrative data. In Statistics Lithuania the quality of data is ensured by checking the completeness of administrative data and analyzing the results obtained. The obtained results are analyzed and, if necessary, the data provider is contacted, data editing is performed.