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For any question on data and metadata, please contact: Eurostat user support |
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1.1. Contact organisation | Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Social Statistics Methodology Section |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Lāčplēša Street 1 Riga, LV-1301 LATVIA |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 08/02/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 08/02/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 08/02/2024 |
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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. |
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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/. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.5. Statistical unit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of persons. |
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3.6. Statistical population | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3.7. Reference area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Population, live births and deaths data are available at national and regional level of geographical detail. Until 2019 data provided according to persons actual residence (a place of residence defined based on the Population and Housing Census 2011 data and revised in line with the changes in OCMA Natural Persons Register showing change of the registered place of residence and taking place after the critical moment of the Census 2011, as well as based on the information available in other administrative sources on people in institutional dwellings). Since 2020 by registered place of residence in Latvia which is defined based on the address registered in the OCMA Natural Persons Register and information available in other administrative sources on people in institutional dwellings, as well as by revising registered address of certain population groups (children registered without parents; fathers registered with children only; persons not having address code). |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Usual resident population – since 1946; data on vital events – since 1920; data on migration – since 1991. |
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3.9. Base period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not applicable. |
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Data is collected at unit (person) level. |
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The reference date for population data is the end of the reference period (midnight of 31 December). |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
Statistics Law (https://likumi.lv/ta/id/274749-statistikas-likums). |
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
Agreement signed with main institutions having administrative data (Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs, State Revenu Service, State Social Insurance Agency, Ministry of Education and Science, National Health Service, State Employment Agency, municipalities etc.). These institutions provide individual level data to Central Statistical Bureau. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
Statistics Law (https://likumi.lv/ta/id/274749-statistikas-likums). |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Statistics Law (https://likumi.lv/ta/id/274749-statistikas-likums). |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
Provisional monthly data are published every month. Final data on number of population at the end of the year, final data on vital events and migration in the previous year are published at the beginning of June. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
https://stat.gov.lv/en/search?Search=%22%22&DataSource=%22publications%22 |
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Provisional monthly data on total number of population, number of birth and death. Monthly data are revised in the June of the following year. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National press release on number of population at the end of previous year, vital events (on previous year), migration (on previous year) – at the beginning of the June. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Annual publications: “Demography” (in October); “Children in Latvia”; “Statistical Yearbook of Latvia”; “Latvia. Statistics in Brief”. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
https://stat.gov.lv/en/metadata/5911-population-and-key-demographic-indicators |
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11.1. Quality assurance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
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12.3. Completeness | |||
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
According to Article 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 Article 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. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
Data are sent to Eurostat according to the Regulations. Nationally data are published according to the release calendar. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data are comparable with other countries. International definitions are used. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The same population is used in all domains (i.e. National Accounts) The residence permit data includes part of immigrants from third countries and EFTA countries because part of the immigrants have been granted residence permits in advance. Not all immigrants registered. Citizens and non-citizens of Latvia who immigrated from third countries do not need a residence permit. According to the assessment method, immigration data includes all registered immigrants, as well as those who have a usually resident status of 1 (a high probability that a person lives in Latvia) and previously was 0. Moreover, each year, around 200 persons registered in the death register who have had a foreign usual residence. These individuals are first included in the immigration, then in the number of deaths. A residence permit of long validity misses migratory movements occurring in between - a person who holds a residence permit with a validity of 5 years and who emigrates and immigrates again within that period of validity captured by the immigration statistics only. Beneficiaries of residence permits who have received work permits do not permanently reside in Latvia, therefore they are not included in the population statistics. The population register includes more persons than actually live in Latvia, the total difference is ~ 8%, therefore, there is more holders of residence permits in the register than actually live in Latvia. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There is no difference in the definitions (data are used for international and national purposes). The demographic balancing equation is used. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
During the year provisional monthly data on number of population are published. Data are revised in the end of June of the following year. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
During the year provisional monthly data on number of population are published. Data are revised in the end of the June of the following year. |
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18.1. Source data | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from Register of Natural persons – every month; data from other administrative sources (including data from Civil Registry offices) – once a year. Mathematical method is used once a year. |
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18.3. Data collection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Agreements on data provision has been signed between CSB and other institutions. Agreements include information on data provision time, way of data provision, structure of data, confidentiality, provisions for data quality. |
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18.4. Data validation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from administrative sources are validate before use for population estimations. Final data on population, vital events and migration are validated before publication – mathematical and logical verification is used. |
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18.5. Data compilation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All data sources contain personal ID codes. These ID codes are used to merge data from different administrative data sources. Mathematical method is used to estimate actual place of residence for each individual. After that usual resident population data base on individual level is prepared. In addition verification of records is used – if all individuals has all necessary records (i.e. gender, age, place of birth, citizenship). If necessary information adjusted on individual level. To prepare data on birth, data from Civil Registry Offices on birth are supplemented with information from Population Register on those, born abroad, whose mother is usual resident of Latvia and was abroad period shorter than 12 months. |
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18.6. Adjustment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Register of Natural persons there are also data on short time immigrants – those migrants are excluded from the population data base. International definitions are used also at national level. No other adjustment. Data are consistant with other data sent according to the Regulations (EC) No 862/2007 and (EU) No 1260/2013. |
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