Population (national level) (demo_pop)

National Reference Metadata in Euro SDMX Metadata Structure (ESMS)

Compiling agency: Hagstofa ÍslandsStatistics Iceland


Eurostat metadata
Reference metadata
1. Contact
2. Metadata update
3. Statistical presentation
4. Unit of measure
5. Reference Period
6. Institutional Mandate
7. Confidentiality
8. Release policy
9. Frequency of dissemination
10. Accessibility and clarity
11. Quality management
12. Relevance
13. Accuracy
14. Timeliness and punctuality
15. Coherence and comparability
16. Cost and Burden
17. Data revision
18. Statistical processing
19. Comment
Related Metadata
Annexes (including footnotes)
 



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1. Contact Top
1.1. Contact organisation

Hagstofa Íslands
Statistics Iceland
1.2. Contact organisation unit

Félagsmál

Social Statistics
1.5. Contact mail address

Borgartun 21 A

105 Reykjavik

ICELAND


2. Metadata update Top
2.1. Metadata last certified 03/01/2024
2.2. Metadata last posted 03/01/2024
2.3. Metadata last update 29/01/2024


3. Statistical presentation Top
3.1. Data description

Data and metadata are transmitted to Eurostat by the Member States in the framework of the Unified Demographic Data Collection which is in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 and their implementing regulations.

This Euro SDMX Metadata Structure is used for the purpose of quality reporting. The definition of the quality concepts and guidelines are described in the European Statistical System Handbook for Quality Reports.
3.2. Classification system

The regional breakdown of the Member States in the regional demographic tables is done under the most recent NUTS classification. There are agreements between Eurostat and Candidate countries as well as between Eurostat and EFTA countries, for which statistical regions have been coded in a way that resembles NUTS.

For more information on the versions in force, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/.
3.3. Coverage - sector

Not available.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
3.4.1 Statistical concepts and definitions used in the statistics transmitted to Eurostat
  1.Usually Resident Population  2. Legal Residence Population  3. Registered Residence Population 4. Other 
Population     X  
Live births     X  
Deaths     X  
Immigrants     X  
Emigrants     X  
Acquisitions of citizenship     X  
Loss of citizenship Not applicable.
Legally induced abortions Not applicable.    
Late foetal deaths Not applicable.
Infant deaths Not applicable.
Marriages Not applicable.
Divorces Not applicable.

 

3.4.2 Statistical concepts and definitions used in the statistics disseminated in the National Statistical Institute's website
Population From the National Register of Persons of 31 December information is gathered on the total population with domicile in Iceland on 1 January.
Live births All children whose mother is domiciled in Iceland are counted, regardless of where the birth takes place. A child is considered a live birth if it shows signs of life at birth.
Deaths Information processed from the National Register of Persons on the total number of dead domiciled in Iceland, regardless of place of death.
Immigrants Information processed from the National Register of Persons on external migration.
Emigrants Information processed from the National Register of Persons on external migration.
Acquisitions of citizenship Those individuals who change citizenship and are domiciled in Iceland are counted in tables on citizenship changes. 
Loss of citizenship Not available.
Legally induced abortions Not available.
Late foetal deaths Not available.
Infant deaths Not available.
Marriages Not available.
Divorces Not available.

 

3.4.3 Differences in statistical concepts and definitions between the statistics transmitted to Eurostat and those disseminated in the National Statistics Institute's website
Population Population estimates for 1 January is not consistent with the 12-month rule. 
Live births Live births estimates are not consistent with the 12-month rule.
Deaths Deaths estimates are not consistent with the 12-month rule.
Immigrants Migrants in a given year are considered only those who were actually registered during the course of that year. In most cases, the migration event occurred in the reference year t, but a significant number occurred in the year t–1 or even earlier. This ensures that all migration events are counted. Long-term migrants are those who did not subsequently move back within 12 months of the first event, using the stated/presumed date of the event. 
Emigrants Migrants in a given year are considered only those who were actually registered during the course of that year. In most cases, the migration event occurred in the reference year t, but a significant number occurred in the year t–1 or even earlier. This ensures that all migration events are counted. Long-term migrants are those who did not subsequently move back within 12 months of the first event, using the stated/presumed date of the event. 
Acquisitions of citizenship Acquisitions of citizenship estimates are not consistent with the 12-month rule. 
Loss of citizenship Not available.
Legally induced abortions Not available.
Late foetal deaths Not available.
Infant deaths Not available.
Marriages Not available.
Divorces Not available.
3.5. Statistical unit

Number of persons.
3.6. Statistical population
  Statistical population
Population  Not available.
Live births  Not available.
Deaths  Not available.
Immigrants  Not available.
Emigrants  Not available.
Acquisitions of citizenship  Not available.
Loss of citizenship  Not available.
Legally induced abortions  Not available.
Late foetal deaths  Not available.
Infant deaths  Not available.
Marriages  Not available.
Divorces  Not available.
3.7. Reference area

Population, live births and deaths data are available at national and regional level of geographical detail.
3.8. Coverage - Time

Since 1998.
3.9. Base period

Not available.


4. Unit of measure Top

Data is collected at unit (person) level.


5. Reference Period Top

The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December).
The reference period for vital and dual events data is the calendar year in which the events occurred. The reference period for migration flow data is the calendar year in which the migration occurred.


6. Institutional Mandate Top
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

Not available.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

Not available.


7. Confidentiality Top
7.1. Confidentiality - policy

Not available.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Not available.


8. Release policy Top
8.1. Release calendar

Not available.
8.2. Release calendar access

Not available.
8.3. Release policy - user access

Not available.


9. Frequency of dissemination Top

Yearly.


10. Accessibility and clarity Top
10.1. Dissemination format - News release

http://www.statice.is/publications/#publicationCategory=19742.
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

http://www.statice.is/publications/#publicationCategory=19742.
10.3. Dissemination format - online database

http://www.statice.is/Statistics/Population.
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

Not available.
10.5. Dissemination format - other

Not available.
10.6. Documentation on methodology
  Documentation on methodology
Population http://www.statice.is/publications/metadata?fileId=19601.
Live births http://www.statice.is/publications/metadata?fileId=19604.
Deaths http://www.statice.is/publications/metadata?fileId=19603.
Immigrants http://www.statice.is/publications/metadata?fileId=19578.
Emigrants http://www.statice.is/publications/metadata?fileId=19578.
Acquisitions of citizenship http://www.statice.is/publications/metadata?fileId=19608.
Loss of citizenship Not available.
Legally induced abortions Not available.
Late foetal deaths Not available.
Infant deaths Not available.
Marriages Not available.
Divorces Not available.
Surface in km2 Not available.
10.7. Quality management - documentation

Not available.


11. Quality management Top
11.1. Quality assurance
   Quality assurance
Citizenship Citizenship means the particular legal bond between an individual and his or her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, choice, marriage or other means according to national legislation.
Country of birth Country of birth refers to the country (in its current borders, if information is available) in which the birth took place.
Country of birth of the mother Country of birth of the mother means the ‘country of birth’ of the mother.
Country of previous usual residence Country of previous usual residence means the country in which a person was usually resident immediately prior to immigration, regardless of the person’s citizenship or country of birth.
Country of next usual residence Country of next usual residence means the country in which a person becomes usually resident following an emigration, regardless of the person’s citizenship or country of birth.
Deaths Death means the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life at any time after live birth has taken place (post-natal cessation of vital functions without capability of resuscitation).
Divorce Not available.
Emigrants Emigrant means a person undertaking an emigration.
First-time marrying person Not available.
First-time registering partner Not available.
Foetal death Not available.
Foreign-born ‘Foreign-born’ means a person who was born outside of the country of current usual residence, regardless of the person’s citizenship. 
Immigrants ‘Immigrant’ means a person undertaking an immigration.
Infant death Not available.
Late foetal death Not available.
Legally induced abortions Not available.
Level of development Not available.
Live birth ‘Live birth’ means the birth of a child who breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of gestational age.
Live birth order Not available.
Marriage Not available.
Native born ‘Native-born’ means a person who was born in the country, regardless of the person’s citizenship.
Person contracting legal union for first-time Not available.
Regional Yes.
Registered partnership Not available.
Registered partnership legally dissolved Not available.
Separation Not available.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
11.2.1. Quality assessment: Type of duration of stay used when counting a person as a migrant according to Art. 2(b) of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007
  1. Actual duration of stay of at least 12 months 2. Intended duration of stay of at least 12 months 3. Actual and intended duration of stay of at least 12 months 4. Other. Please specify
Nationals Immigrants  X      
Emigrants  X      
EEA citizens Immigrants  X      
Emigrants  X      
Non EEA citizens Immigrants  X      
Emigrants  X      

 

11.2.2. Quality assessment of the definition of acquisitions of citizenship according to Art. 3(d) of Regulation (EC) No 862/2007
  1. Acquisitions of citizenship granted to persons having their usual residence in the territory of the Member State 2.Other. Please specify
Acquisitions of citizenship X  


12. Relevance Top
12.1. Relevance - User Needs

Not available.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction

Not available.
12.3. Completeness

Not available.


13. Accuracy Top
13.1. Accuracy - overall
  Overall accuracy and special cases (Inclusion/exclusion of asylum seekers and refugees, persons living on unauthorised or irregular basis, international students, persons who do not register/deregister,...)
Population

There are three sources of errors to figures in the National Register of Persons on 31 December: late notifications of change of residence, late death certificates, and late birth reports. In a survey of delayed reports over the past five years it emerged that the greatest uncertainty was caused by late notifications of change of residence, due to which an average of 80 persons are under- or overestimated in the National Register of Persons on 31 December. Late death certificates cause the number of persons to be overestimated by around 10 persons in the National Register of Persons on 31 December, while late birth reports cause the number of persons to be underestimated by one individual about every two years. Error in the total amount in the National Register of Persons is therefore, on average (average for 1996-2000) around 0.03 %. 

Comparisons of censuses and the National Register of Persons on 31 December give another way of evaluating errors in the register taken for the 31 December. Statistics Iceland last census was carried out on 31 January 1981, when 227 870 persons were counted. On the other hand, The National Register of persons for 1 December 1980 was updated to 31 January 1981 and showed 229 208 individuals. About 1 338 more individuals were found in the National Register of Persons than in the census from the same time (around 0.6 % error).

It is likely that a large proportion of those going abroad for a shorter or longer period of time, to study or work, choose to stay registered in the National Register of Persons, either to retain rights within the social security system or simply due to apathy. It is therefore to be expected that a greater number of people is registered in the National Register of Persons than are actually residing in the country.

Asylum seekers excluded and refugees included.

Persons seeking refuge from Ukraine are includen.
Live births Delayed birth reports were for a short period the main cause of errors in birth figures. In a review of delays to birth reports over the last five years, it emerged that no birth report was missing. Asylum seekers excluded and refugees included.
Deaths Information on the number of deaths published in the tables of Statistics Iceland is accurate; it can be considered certain that information on all deaths reaches Statistics Iceland. Practitioners write out death certificates for all deaths and it is only in exceptional circumstances that information on the cause of death is not available. Asylum seekers excluded and refugees included.
Immigrants The implementation is made with full knowledge of events in the year 2010, so that all the migration events registered in 2009 can be classified as long-term or short-term events. In the future implementations, this cannot be achieved, as Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 requires the Member States to transmit the data within 12 months of the reference year. Data for 2010 and onwards will thus have some overestimation of the long-term migration, as all the migration events whose date was less than 12 months prior to the date of data extraction will have to be treated as long-term events. Asylum seekers excluded and refugees included.
Emigrants The implementation is made with full knowledge of events in the year 2010, so that all the migration events registered in 2009 can be classified as long-term or short-term events. In the future implementations, this cannot be achieved, as Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 requires the Member States to transmit the data within 12 months of the reference year. Data for 2010 and onwards will thus have some overestimation of the long-term migration, as all the migration events whose date was less than 12 months prior to the date of data extraction will have to be treated as long-term events. Asylum seekers excluded and refugees included.
Acquisitions of citizenship Figures cover all citizenship changes. No reports are known to be missing for the last few years.
Loss of citizenship

Not available.
Legally induced abortions

Not available.
Late foetal deaths

Not available.
Infant deaths

Not available.
Marriages

Not available.
Divorces

Not available.
13.2. Sampling error
  Sampling error
Population  Not available.
Live births  Not available.
Deaths  Not available.
Immigrants  Not available.
Emigrants  Not available.
Acquisitions of citizenship  Not available.
Loss of citizenship  Not available.
Legally induced abortions  Not available.
Late foetal deaths  Not available.
Infant deaths  Not available.
Marriages  Not available.
Divorces  Not available.
13.3. Non-sampling error
  Non-sampling error (coverage error, measurement error, non-response error, processing error, model assumption error)
Population  Not available.
Live births  Not available.
Deaths  Not available.
Immigrants  Not available.
Emigrants  Not available.
Acquisitions of citizenship  Not available.
Loss of citizenship  Not available.
Legally induced abortions  Not available.
Late foetal deaths  Not available.
Infant deaths  Not available.
Marriages  Not available.
Divorces  Not available.


14. Timeliness and punctuality Top
14.1. Timeliness

According to Art 4 (2) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014, each year Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data at national and regional level as described in Annex II and related standard reference metadata (in the metadata structure definition defined for the Euro SDMX Metadata Structure) for the reference year within 12 months of the end of the reference year. According to Art 3 (2) of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 862/2007, Statistics on international migration, usually resident population and acquisition of citizenship shall be supplied to the Commission (Eurostat) within 12 months of the end of the reference year.
14.2. Punctuality

Not available.


15. Coherence and comparability Top
15.1. Comparability - geographical

Not available.
15.2. Comparability - over time
  Comparability - over time
Population From 1997, the National Register of Persons at the end of the year provides the population figures for 1 January the subsequent year. 
Live births Live births include in 2009 births outside of Iceland, whose mothers were resident of Iceland at time of birth. Previously these births were counted in the immigration figures.  
Deaths Information processed from the National Register of Persons on the total number of dead domiciled in Iceland (according to law no. 5 on domicile from 1990), regardless of place of death. 
Immigrants The implementation is made with full knowledge of events in the year 2010, so that all the migration events registered in 2009 can be classified as long-term or short-term events. In the future implementations, this cannot be achieved, as Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 requires the Member States to transmit the data within 12 months of the reference year. Data for 2010 and onwards will thus have some overestimation of the long-term migration, as all the migration events whose date was less than 12 months prior to the date of data extraction will have to be treated as long-term events. 
Emigrants The implementation is made with full knowledge of events in the year 2010, so that all the migration events registered in 2009 can be classified as long-term or short-term events. In the future implementations, this cannot be achieved, as Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 requires the Member States to transmit the data within 12 months of the reference year. Data for 2010 and onwards will thus have some overestimation of the long-term migration, as all the migration events whose date was less than 12 months prior to the date of data extraction will have to be treated as long-term events. 
Acquisitions of citizenship From 1981, the number of those receiving Icelandic citizenship is not comparable with older figures.
Loss of citizenship

Not available.
Legally induced abortions

Not available.
Late foetal deaths

Not available.
Infant deaths

Not available.
Marriages

Not available.
Divorces

Not available.
Surface in km2

Not available.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Other population estimates are used by SILC and LFS, based on survey.

The differences between Residence Permits Statistics and International Migration Statistics are connected to legacy problems regarding residence permits.
15.4. Coherence - internal

Comparability between the death, birth and migration and the population register. Additionally all variables in the population register are tested for inner consistency and new codes are specially looked at.  


16. Cost and Burden Top

Not available.


17. Data revision Top
17.1. Data revision - policy

Not available.
17.2. Data revision - practice

Not available.


18. Statistical processing Top
18.1. Source data
  List of data sources
Population Population register(s).
Live births Population register(s).
Deaths Population register(s).
Immigrants Population register(s).
Emigrants Population register(s).
Acquisitions of citizenship Population register(s).
Loss of citizenship

Not available.
Legally induced abortions

Not available.
Late foetal deaths

Not available.
Infant deaths

Not available.
Marriages

Not available.
Divorces

Not available.
Surface in km2

Not available.
18.2. Frequency of data collection

Yearly.
18.3. Data collection

Automatic processes get the information electronically from NRP.
18.4. Data validation

Comparability between the population register and databases on migration, deaths and live births. Additionally each of the above-mentioned variables in the population register is tested for inner consistency and new codes are specially looked at.  
18.5. Data compilation

Statistics Iceland uses the NRP at the end of the year for estimating the population at that time. All migration flows that have been registered during the year are taken into account, but birth and death data referring to the reference year, which are registered in the first 6 weeks of the following year, are added to / subtracted from the data before publication.
18.6. Adjustment

There are three sources of errors to figures in the National Register of Persons on 31 December: late notifications of change of residence, late death certificates, and late birth reports. In a survey of delayed reports over the past five years it emerged that the greatest uncertainty was caused by late notifications of change of residence, due to which an average of 80 persons are under- or overestimated in the National Register of Persons on 31 December. Late death certificates cause the number of persons to be overestimated by around 10 persons in the National Register of Persons on 31 December, while late birth reports cause the number of persons to be underestimated by one individual about every two years. Error in the total amount in the National Register of Persons is therefore, on average (average for 1996-2000) around 0.03 %. 


19. Comment Top

Not available.


Related metadata Top


Annexes Top