Sample characteristics: Austria
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1971 |
| Statistical agency | Austrian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Population with a main residence in the territory |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | May 12, 1971 |
| Questionnaire | For every enumeration unit the same form was used all over the country. The enumeration forms are separete for buildings, housing units, and persons. |
| Type of fieldwork | Distribution and collection of questionnaires by enumerators; self-completion of questionnaires or by enumerators |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th private household after a random start; 100% data of institutional households; drawn by Statistics Austria |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 836044 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor=10 |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Eurostat NUTS3 region (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | All housing units except those in group quarters or temporary homes; including dwellings consisting of one room without accessories or a kitchen |
| Households | A household consists of persons who live and work together. For this reason, there can also be multiple households within a dwelling. |
| Collective dwellings | Group quarters are defined as instututions such as hospitals, convalescence establishments, nursing homes, old people's homes, welfare institutions, military installations, religious institutions, dormitories of educational institutions, correctional and penal institutions etc.; two different types of institutional households: those of inmates and those of staff |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1981 |
| Statistical agency | Austrian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Population with a main residence in the territory |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | May 12, 1981 |
| Questionnaire | For every enumeration unit the same form was used all over the country |
| Type of fieldwork | Distribution and collection of questionnaires by enumerators; self-completion of questionnaires or by enumerators |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th private household after a random start; 100% data of institutional households; drawn by Statistics Austria |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 836833 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor=10 |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Eurostat NUTS3 region (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling (housing unit) is defined as a room or suite of rooms and its accessories (at least a kitchen or a kitchenette). |
| Households | A household is comprised of persons who live and work together (compare to the explanations for the household list). There can therefore be also multiple households within the same dwelling.
Whether a family constitutes an individual household while residing in the same dwelling as living parents or parents-in-law, you must allow those persons to decide. As a reference to the "joint economies", for example can be the joint receipt of meals, a joint economy income, and the use of the same living spaces are considered. A household can consist also of a single person. |
| Collective dwellings | Group quarters are defined as instututions such as hospitals, convalescence establishments, nursing homes, old people's homes, welfare institutions, military installations, religious institutions, dormitories of educational institutions, correctional and penal institutions etc.; two different types of institutional households: those of inmates and those of staff |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population Census; Building and Housing Census 1991 |
| Statistical agency | Austrian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Population with a main residence in the territory |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | May 15, 1991 |
| Questionnaire | For every enumeration unit the same form was used all over the country |
| Type of fieldwork | Distribution and collection of questionnaires by enumerators; self-completion of questionnaires or by enumerators |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th private household after a random start; 100% data of institutional households; drawn by Statistics Austria |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 902568 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor=10 |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Eurostat NUTS3 region (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling (housing unit) is defined as a room or suite of rooms and its accessories (at least a kitchen or a kitchenette). |
| Households | A household is comprised of all persons that live with one another and together keep a common home economy. Therefore, there can also be several households within a housing unit. A household can also consist of a single person. The decision whether a family is formed with those parents or parents-in-law living in the same housing unit, must be left up to these persons. Communal meal times, common housekeeping money or the use of the same living spaces can be seen as an indication of "communal housekeeping." Household personnel and commercial or agricultural employees also belong to the household if they are provided room and board. |
| Collective dwellings | Group quarters are defined as instututions such as hospitals, convalescence establishments, nursing homes, old people's homes, welfare institutions, military installations, religious institutions, dormitories of educational institutions, correctional and penal institutions, refugee camps, worker dormitories, hotels, boarding houses etc. There are two different types of institutional households: those of inmates and those of staff. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population Census; Building and Housing Census 2001 |
| Statistical agency | Statistics Austria |
| Population universe | Population with a main residence in the territory |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | May 15, 2001 |
| Questionnaire | For every enumeration unit the same form was used all over the country |
| Type of fieldwork | Distribution and collection of questionnaires by enumerators; self-completion of questionnaires or by enumerators |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th private household after a random start; 100% data of institutional households; drawn by Statistics Austria |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 883878 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor=10 |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Eurostat NUTS3 region (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A dwelling (housing unit) is defined as a room or suite of rooms and its accessories (at least a kitchen or a kitchenette). |
| Households | A household is comprised of all persons that live with one another and keep a common home economy together. (Household personnel also belong to the household if they are provided room and board.) A household can also consist of one person living alone. Other occupants (e.g. subtenants) that manage their own home economy can fill out their own census lists. If a household lives divided across several housing units, all household members are nevertheless recorded in one single census list. |
| Collective dwellings | Group quarters are defined as institutions for the purpose of (long-term) inhabitation and provision of institutionalised care given to a group of persons. Such institutions are one of the following: dormitories of educational institutions, old people' and nursing homes, religious institutions, military installations, correctional and penal institutions, refugee camps etc. Only one type of institutional household: those of inmates. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Register-based census |
| Title | Population Census; Housing Census 2011 |
| Statistical agency | Statistics Austria |
| Population universe | Population with a main residence in the territory |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | October 31, 2011 |
| Field work period | None: register-based census. |
| Questionnaire | None: register-based census. |
| Type of fieldwork | None: register-based census |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 10th private household after a random start; 100% data of institutional households; drawn by Statistics Austria |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 839501 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor=10 |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Eurostat NUTS3 region (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Structurally separate units with their own entrance from the street, or a stairwell in permanent buildings, that are suitable for residential purposes. Dwellings consist of one room or multiple rooms with ancillary rooms. It makes no difference whether a kitchen or kitchenette is present. |
| Households | All persons living in a dwelling or similar accommodation
as their main residence form a private household. The size of the household therefore corresponds to the number of people with their main residence in the dwelling. Up to the 1991 Population Census, the housekeeping-unit concept was used, according to which all persons living together and jointly managing a household formed a private household. |
| Collective dwellings | An institutional household is an establishment that is used for the accommodation and care of
a group of persons – normally over the longer term. The term covers boarding schools, student residences, senior citizen and nursing homes, monasteries, military barracks, penal institutions, refugee centres, facilities for disabled, socially deprived or homeless persons, homes for young people or trainees and similar institutions. In contrast to the 2001 Population Census, the 2011 register-based census also considers non-institutional forms of living together in collective living quarters (e.g. company accommodation, hotels, etc.) as institutional households.Solely main residence registrations are recorded. Because of secondary residence registrations, the actual occupancy of individual facilities may be higher. |