Housing indicators (Housing and Population Census 2021)

Housing indicators include data on type of living quarters, occupancy status of conventional dwellings, type of ownership of occupied conventional dwellings, number of occupants in occupied dwellings (density standard), living space of occupied conventional dwellings, living space per occupant, amenities of conventional dwellings, occupancy status of dwellings, the breakdown of conventional dwellings by type of building and by time of construction. 

• Population;
• Private household;
• Dwelling.

Housing coverage

The first population is all conventional dwellings by definition: a dwelling is a room or several rooms and their ancillary rooms (for example, lobbies and corridors) in a permanent building or a structurally separate part thereof, which by its type of construction or reconstruction is intended for one household to live throughout the year (for example, a house or apartment).

The second statistical population is occupied dwellings (occupied conventional dwellings, other housing units and institutional dwellings).

Population coverage

Housing arrangements covers the whole population and refers to the type of housing in which a person usually resides at the time of the census. This covers all persons who are usual residents in different types of living quarters, or who do not have a usual residence and stay temporarily in some type of living quarters, or who are roofless, sleeping rough or in emergency shelters, when the census is taken.

• Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/543 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses as regards the technical specifications of the topics and of their breakdowns.
• Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/712 establishing the reference year and the programme of the statistical data and metadata for population and housing censuses provided for by Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/881 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses, as regards the modalities and structure of the quality reports and the technical format for data transmission, and amending Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010.
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1799 on the establishment of a temporary direct statistical action for the dissemination of selected topics of the 2021 population and housing census geocoded to a 1 km2 grid
• Cabinet Order No. 766 of 19 December 2017 "On the Date of the Population and Housing census".
• Cabinet Regulation No. 588 of 10 December 2019 “Regulations Regarding the Population and Housing Census 2021”. 

Statistics database

Number of dwellings and characteristics in the EU countries

• Population and Housing Census 2011 data are available here Census Hub.

The data are partially comparable with the Population and Housing Census 2011 data. Detailed information on the differences is described in the "Data Collection" section.

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To obtain housing indicators, the Central Statistical Bureau uses data from administrative registers:

• Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs;
• State Land Service;
• State Construction Control Bureau;
• Information from municipal water supply, sewerage and heating enterprises.

Data on the number of dwellings are calculated from the State Land Service Real Estate Cadastre (State Immovable Property Cadastre) Information System. Data on addresses are obtained from the information system of the State Address Register.

In 2021, the Population and Housing Census was based on registers and other sources of administrative data. In 2011 the method of obtaining information was combined – a full survey, as well as information from registers and other administrative data sources.

Criterion of cohabitation was used to determine households in the Population and Housing Census 2021, but the shared expenditures criterion – in 2011.

Changes in the time series of housing data

Population and Housing Census 2021 data have been published by registered place of residence, but Population and Housing 2011 data – by actual place of residence.

In 2021, based on the information available in the registers, the area of​ dwellings is published only for conventional dwellings, only three main types of residential buildings are indicated – one-dwelling residential buildings, two-dwelling residential buildings and three or more dwelling residential buildings, for conventional dwellings it is indicated whether there is central heating and whether there is a flush toilet. Relevant information on Population and Housing Census 2011 has been prepared for comparison.

Information on determining the registered place of residence in Latvia (from 2020) is available in the descriptive metadata section "Population and key demographic indicators".