STATEC

Unit SOC3 Population and Housing

B.P. 304

L-2013 Luxembourg

Total usual residence population for the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council.

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Total usual residence population at national level.

Data referring to population on 31 December of the reference year are transmitted by the Member States to Eurostat under the Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 on European demographic statistics. Articles 4 and 5 of this Regulation oblige the Member States to transmit their total population figures based on the "usual residence" concept, to be used for the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council. The data are conventionally published by Eurostat as 1 January of the following year (reference year + 1).

All persons having their usual residence in Luxembourg.

"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 alone shall be considered to be usual residents of a specific geographical area:
(i) those who have lived in their place of usual residence for a continuous period of at least 12 months before the reference time; or
(ii) those who arrived in their place of usual residence during the 12 months before the reference time with the intention of staying there for at least one year.

Person.

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Data are available at national level of geographical detail.

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Person.

The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December).

Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013

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Annual.

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See the information in the Annex file.

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As STATEC receive individual forms for birth and death directly from the different municipalities where the events occur great quality can be assured.

We also compare our figures with:

The population register (births and deaths);

the Ministry of Health (for deaths).

Data requested in Art. 4.1 of Reg. 1260/2013.

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Data transmitted as requested in Art. 4.1 of Reg. 1260/2013.

We use the population register to produce the stock of the population.

The quality of the register has been improved during the last years and the difference between the population register and the estimation of the statec is very low.

The estimation of the population is used only to measure the quality of the population register.

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For the purposes of qualified majority voting in the Council, Member States shall provide the Commission (Eurostat) with data on the total population at national level at the reference time, in accordance with Article 2 ( c ), within eight months of the end of the reference year.

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The total usual residence population  transmitted by the national statistical offices to Eurostat in the framework of the Usual Residence Population data collection may differ from those available in National Accounts, Labour Force Survey or in the survey on Income and Living Conditions. The difference is given by the population coverage (see metadata specific to each domain).

The total usual residence population  transmitted by the national statistical offices to Eurostat in the framework of the Usual Residence Population data collection may differ from those available in the rest of the Demographic domain. The difference is given by the population definition (see metadata specific to each domain).

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POPULATION: Population register.

IMMIGRANTS: population register.

EMIGRANTS: population register.

BIRTH and DEATH: municipalities.

For births and deaths: monthly.

For migration: yearly.

For population: yearly.

We receive individual forms for births and deaths from the municipalities every months and once a year information on births and deats of residents which occur abroad.

For migration data we receive a file extracted from the Population register once a year.

For population data we receive a file extracted from the Population register once a year.

We compare the population register with the estimated population of STATEC (see 13.1).

Natural events are coded and than entered in Windev. After that we treat the data with SPSS to do coherency checks and publish the results.

For population and migration data we receive an extract of the Population Register.

The statistical adjustement is the difference between two 31 december and not explained by births, deaths and migrations.

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