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Population with Ukrainian citizenship - special data collection from census 2021 round (cens_21ua)

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Key data presented on population of Ukrainian citizen based on the 2021 census round data.

Separate tables cover:

- Ukrainian citizen by sex and single and major age groups at NUTS and NUTS 3 level.

- Ukrainian citizen by sex, age groups and by educational attainment.

- Ukrainian citizen by sex, age groups and by current activity status.

- Ukrainian citizen by sex, age groups and by legal marital status.

- Ukrainian citizen by sex, age groups and by year of arrival and residence one year before.

- Ukrainian citizen by sex, age groups and by household status.

11 July 2022

Data collected under definitions of:

1. “Usual place of residence”, which is 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 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.

2.”Sex “refers to the biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.

3.The “age” reached in completed years at the census reference date.

4.”Marital status” is defined as the (legal) conjugal status of an individual in relation to the marriage laws (or customs) of the country (that is the de jure status).

A person shall be classified according to his/her most recently acquired legal marital status at the reference date.

In Member States where the legislation includes provisions for married partners or partners in registered partnership to be ‘legally separated’, such ‘legally separated’ persons are classified under ‘Married or in registered partnership’

5.”Households” are identified using the ‘housekeeping concept’ or, if not possible, using the ‘household- dwelling concept’.

5.1 Housekeeping concept- According to the housekeeping concept, a private household is either: (a) a one-person household, that is a person who lives alone in a separate housing unit or who occupies, as a lodger, a separate room (or rooms) of a housing unit but does not join with any of the other occupants of the housing unit to form part of a multiperson household as defined below; or (b) a multiperson household, that is a group of two or more persons who combine to occupy the whole or part of a housing unit and to provide themselves with food and possibly other essentials for living. Members of the group may pool their incomes to a greater or lesser extent.

5.2 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.

6.”Current activity status” is the current relationship of a person to economic activity, based on a reference period of one week, which may be either a specified, recent, fixed, calendar week, or the last complete calendar week, or the last seven days prior to enumeration

7.”Educational attainment” refers to the highest level successfully completed in the educational system of the country where the education was received. All education which is relevant to the completion of a level is taken into account even if this was provided outside schools and universities.

8.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 the time span between 1 January 2021 and the reference date.

9.”Citizenship” is defined as the particular legal bond between an individual and his/her with Ukraine, acquired by birth or naturalization, whether by declaration, option, marriage or other means according to the national legislation

10.” 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.

In the data presented here, only  "Persons" (individuals), "Private households."

"Place of usual residence" is the geographic place where the enumerated person usually resides. ie. 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.In certain cases, residence may be defined in different ways, in particular according to the place of legal or registered residence.

Only those persons:

  • who have lived in their place of usual residence for a continuous period of at least twelve months before Census Day; or
  • who have arrived in their place of usual residence during the twelve months before Census Day with the intention of staying for at least one year
  • should be considered as usual residents of the relevant geographic or administrative subdivision.

Census 2021

European Union 27 Member States, European Free Trade Association Member States (4)

The data relate to the specific census dates set in each country.

Not available yet. Information will be delivered in 2024.

Number of persons.

Member States will provide report at the end of March 2024.

Data sources used for the production of 2021 census data.

The data sources and basic census methodologies differ between countries and between different census rounds. Three main approaches may be defined, although there are detailed differences in terms of how these approaches are implemented:

The "traditional" census, with enumeration based on questionnaires with interviews of respondents by enumerators or self-compilation of forms by respondents;
The "Register based" census which enumerates the population on the basis of administrative sources of information. Data collection is based on the use of registers (population registers, registers of buildings and dwellings, geographical co-ordinates, school registers, social security, tax, business and company registers). To ensure provision of all of the data required by the census operation, it is often necessary for data from different administrative sources to be linked - for example, combining data on individuals from a population register with data on the relevant dwelling taken from as buildings register;
The "mixed" or “combined” census based on a combination of traditional; census enumeration techniques and/or sample surveys and/or administrative data sources.
(See Regulation (EC) 763/2008, Article 4)

No updates will be provided because not applicable for this collection.

This data collection provides timely data on Ukrainians living in the EU before war. This is a one-off to provide timely data (T+1) on Ukrainians living in the EU.

National differences in the census methodologies, definitions and concepts used may impact on the comparability of data from different countries. However, detailed information about the extent of this is not generally available until 31st of March in 2024.

Over time, countries have made changes to the census methodologies and data sources, as well as to the basic concepts and definitions used. These changes will impact on the comparability of data over time.