Sample characteristics: Hungary
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1970 Population census |
| Statistical agency | Hungarian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Resident population in private and collective living quarters |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | January 1, 1970 |
| Field work period | January 1-12, 1970 |
| Questionnaire | Housing questionnaire (short and long forms); person questionnaire (short and long form); questionnaire for institutional households; PES (post-enumeration survey) questionnaires |
| Type of fieldwork | Interview by enumerator |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 20th dwelling after a random start; drawn by the national statistical office |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 515119 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Type of locality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Households | The sphere of persons living together in a common dwelling or in a part of it, having a common meal at least once a week, and commonly bear the costs of living. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1980 Population census |
| Statistical agency | Hungarian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Resident population in private and collective living quarters |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | January 1, 1980 |
| Field work period | January 1-14, 1980 |
| Questionnaire | Housing questionnaire; questionnaire for group quarters; questionnaire on holiday-home units; personal questionnaire; housing questionnaire and personal questionnaire for subsequent checking (PES) |
| Type of fieldwork | Interview by enumerator |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 20th dwelling after a random start; drawn by the national statistical office |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 536007 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Type of locality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Architecturally connected units (living-, cooking-, hygienic- etc. rooms) built originally or transformed later for residential purposes and having\ direct access from outside (i.e. from a street). |
| Households | A group of persons living together in a common housing unit or in a part of it, sharing the costs of living partly or totally, and having their meals together on one or more days of the week. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 1990 Population census |
| Statistical agency | Hungarian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Resident population in private and collective living quarters |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | January 1, 1990 |
| Field work period | January 2 - February 3, 1990 |
| Questionnaire | Dwelling questionnaire (short and long form); person questionnaire (short and long form); questionnaire for institutional households; PES (post enumeration survey) questionnaires |
| Type of fieldwork | Interview by enumerator |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 20th dwelling after a random start; drawn by the national statistical office |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 518240 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Type of locality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A unit of places and rooms of specified functions (living rooms, cooking places, sanitary places etc.) generally connected with each other architecturally and built originally for human accommodation. |
| Households | A group of persons living together in a common dwelling or in one of its parts, bear together partly or completely the costs of living, and having their meals together on one or several days of the week. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population census 2001 |
| Statistical agency | Hungarian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | Resident population in private and collective living quarters |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | February 1, 2001 |
| Field work period | February 1-21, 2001 |
| Questionnaire | Dwelling questionnaire, person questionnaire, institutional building's and household's questionnaire |
| Type of fieldwork | Interview by enumerator |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every 20th dwelling after a random start; drawn by the national statistical office |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 510502 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 20) |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | Type of locality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A unit of places and rooms with specific functions (living rooms, cooking places, sanitary places etc.) generally architecturally connected to each other and intended for human accommodation. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population census 2011 |
| Statistical agency | Hungarian Central Statistical Office |
| Population universe | All Hungarian citizens and foreign citizens staying in Hungary for more than three months (excluding members of foreign dimplomatic corps and their family members) living om private and group quarters. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | October 1, 2011 |
| Field work period | October 1-31, 2012 |
| Questionnaire | Possible to do fill in a census form via the internet. Self respone, or direct enumeration. There is a household questionnaire, a person questionnaire, and institutional building's and household questionnaire. |
| Type of fieldwork | Self-administered via internet or post. Or household interview |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | 5% simple random sample drawn by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office. |
| Sample fraction | 0.05 |
| Sample size (person records) | 496762 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting (expansion factor = 20). |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Yes |
| Smallest geography | None |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Structure intended for human accommodation, stay (home) or converted into dwelling and also suitable for living at present. A group of technically (architecturally) adjoining places that is suitable for accommodation for the whole year. It has which has a separate entrance from a public place, courtyard or from a collectively used place inside the building (staircase, corridor etc.) |
| Households | An economic unit including family members studying or working away from home as well, together forming and economic community of productive and dependent persons. |
| Collective dwellings | Premises or premise groups providing collective accommodation and certain boarding for five or more persons, irrespective of whether there were persons living and boarding there at the reference date of the census. Among others, student hostels, infants' and children's home, workers' homes, hospitals, residential social institutions, hotels, boarding houses and campsites, holdiay houses owned by corporations and institutions, as well as prisons, etc. belong to this category. |