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Census Characteristics	1990
Title	Year 1990 Population census
Census Agency	Hungarian Central Statistical Office
Population	In housing units every person had to be enumerated - irrespective of his/her actual presence - if living there steadily with permanent or temporary registration or even without being officially registered. From among foreign citizens the following were enumerated: persons having a permit to settle down; those having a residence permit enabling them to stay in Hungary for more than one year studying, working; those waiting for the permission to settle down; refugees having a temporary residence permit, but expecting to settle down in Hungary. Excluded from the scope of the census: foreign diplomats and their family members, foreign military personnel staying in the country; tourists, guests etc.
Universe	100%
De jure or de facto	De facto
Enumeration unit	Dwelling
Census day	1 January 1990
Field work period	2 January - 3 February 1990
Enumeration forms used	Dwelling questionnaire (short form, 80%), dwelling questionnaire (long form, 20%); person's questionnaire (short form, 80%), person's questionnaire (long form, 20%); questionnaire for institutional households; PES (post enumeration survey) questionnaires
Type of field work	Interview by enumerator
Respondent	Householder or any other adult in the household
Coverage	-
Microdata sample characteristics	1990
Sample microdata source	Hungarian Central Statistical Office
Sample design	-
Sample unit	Dwelling
Sample fraction	5%
Sample fraction (private households)	-
Sample fraction (institutional households)	-
Sample size (person records)	518.215
Sample size (private households)	-
Sample size (institutional households)	-
Sample weights	Equal weight =20
Units identified	1990
Dwellings	Yes
Vacant units	Yes
Households	Yes
Individuals	Yes
Group quarters	No
Settled/unsettled Population	No
Special populations	No
Unit definitions	1990
Dwellings	The dwelling is a unit of places and rooms of specified functions (living rooms, cooking places, sanitary places etc.), generally connected with each other technically (architecturally), built originally for human accommodation, stay (home) or transformed into dwelling also suitable for living at present, which has a separate entrance from a public place, courtyard or from a collectively used place inside the building (staircase, corridor etc.).
Households	The household is the circle of persons living together in a common dwelling or in one of its parts, bear together partly or completely the costs of living and, as usual, take their meals together on one or several days of the week. Persons living in the same dwelling but on the basis of independent tenures are not considered as persons living in the same household, even if the above conditions are fulfilled. Consequently, the owner or the tenant (partner tenant) does not form a common household with his/her subtenant, bedtenant. Co-tenants can't form a common household either.
Institutional population	-
Group quarters	-
Unsettled population	-