Key Indicators
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Total Population
(
2002)
:
2022547
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Total number of Households
(
2002)
:
564296
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Total number of Dwellings
(
2002)
:
698143
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Terms and explanations
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The total population is consisted of:
- Persons who have place of usual residence in the Republic of Macedonia, regardless of whether at the time of the Census they are present at their place of usual residence or elsewhere in the Republic of Macedonia;
- Foreigners who have a residence permit for the Republic of Macedonia and they are temporarily present in the Republic of Macedonia at least 12 months (one year), but who have a place of usual residence outside of the Republic of Macedonia;
- Persons who have place of usual residence in the Republic of Macedonia, who at the time of the Census, and for a maximum of 12 months (one year) prior to its conduction, are working abroad, as well as the members of their households;
- Persons who have place of usual residence in the Republic of Macedonia, and during the time of the Census are working abroad at the diplomatic and consular representative offices of the Republic of Macedonia, the United Nations and its organizations, representative offices or being representatives of the Chamber of Commerce abroad, business offices abroad, military representatives of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia abroad, and citizens engaged on the bases of international, technical and other kinds of co-operation, education, as well as the members of their households who are staying abroad with the aforesaid persons;
- Persons who have place of usual residence in the Republic of Macedonia, but are not in possession of the documents pursuant to Article 39, item 1 from the Census Law, if they present the documents stated with Article 39 item 3 from the Census Law.
Households
A household is considered to be a family or some other community of persons who declare themselves to be living together and spending their incomes collectively for their basic living needs (housing, food and other), regardless of whether all household members are present at the place where the household is settled, or if some of them are staying for a certain period of time at some other settlement, respectively foreign country for the purpose of work, education or for other reasons.
A household is also considered to be any person who lives alone (”single person household”), and who has no other household elsewhere.
A household is also considered the so-called collective (institutional) household, i.e. a household consisting of persons who live in institutions for permanent care of children and adults, in monasteries-convents and hospitals for incurable persons.
The Census covers all households (according to definition of households) of the persons - Census units.
The data in the table concerns the total number of the households in which are included the individual and the collective households. The data of the individual households concerns the individual households with one person (single person households) and individual households with more persons.
Living quarters
The data in the table concern the all living quarters.
A living quarter means dwellings for habitation and other inhabited premises or objects that are not intended for habitation, but however in the time of the Census are used for habitation.
A dwelling is a connected construction unit intended for habitation, regardless weather at the time of the Census the dwelling is used: for habitation only; for habitation and performing economic activities; only for performing economic activities; for vacation and recreation, or it is uninhabited, but is constructively functional dwelling.
The other living quarters, means other inhabited premise that is not intended for habitation, inhabited business premise, improvized living quarter and collective living quarter.
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