Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Paseo
de la Castellana, 183, 28046 Madrid.
1950, 1960, 1970, 1981, 1991 and 2001. The
present report refers to the 2001 population census (reference date 1
November).
The week preceding the date of the census,
i.e. 28 to 31 October 2001.
a) Total population, by sex and age: Yes
Economically active population by:
b) Sex and age group: Yes
c) Industry: Yes
d) Occupation: Yes
e) Status in employment: Yes
f) Highest educational level: Yes
g) Hours of work: Yes
h) Other characteristics: Yes
Re. a): Age defined in terms of year
of birth.
Re. g): The 2001 census for the first
time included a question on hours of work.
Re. h): The 2001 census included general
questions on place of work or study, time needed for travel and means of
transport used, and number of trips from home to place of work or study. (In
the previous census, only a few autonomous local authorities had collected such
data).
In order to determine whether a person was
to be regarded as economically active, the following question was used:
“Indicate which of the following situations applied to you last week (28 – 31
October):
i)
Undergoing some form of education (including day centres, schools,
enterprises);
ii)
Employed (worked for at least one hour) or temporarily absent from work;
iii)
Unemployed and seeking work for the first time;
iv)
Unemployed after having been employed;
v)
Receiving a permanent disability or invalidity pension;
vi)
Receiving a widow’s or orphan’s pension;
vii)
Receiving a retirement or early retirement pension;
viii) Undertaking
voluntary social activities;
ix) In
need of assistance with basic activities (getting dressed, help with mobility,
etc.);
x)
Doing household tasks;
xi)
Other situation (such as children not at school, private means).
b) Employment: Persons are defined as employed if
they have worked for at least one hour during the reference week. The
definition also includes persons who during the week in question were
temporarily absent from work because of illness, holidays, and so on.
The following categories are included:
i)
Persons working without pay in a family business;
ii)
Persons involved in the production of primary goods for their own consumption;
iii)
Persons employed but temporarily absent from work;
iv)
Students working part time;
v) Seasonal or occasional workers
who were employed during the reference week;
vi) Apprentices and persons enrolled in
training courses, if receiving some form of remuneration.
Only persons in categories (i) and (iv)
and (v) can be separately identified. Seasonal and occasional workers are
regarded as employed only if they worked for at least one hour during the
reference week. Military or civil conscripts are excluded from the economically
active population but can be identified separately.
Both employed persons and unemployed
persons with previous work experience were classified by industry, occupation
and status in employment. These variables refer to the principal occupation of
the person when employed and to the last (most recent) employment held.
c) Status
in employment:
In order to establish
this variable, the question used was “What was your situation with regard to
occupation?”. This variable was codified in the following categories:
management, professional or self-employed worker employing staff; management,
professional or self-employed worker not employing staff; wage earner or other
employed worker with fixed or permanent status; wage earner or other employed
worker with casual or temporary status; other status such as unpaid family
work, member of cooperative.
d) Level of education: The 2001 census gathered data on education levels
focusing on three aspects: level of educational attainment; area of studies;
and current studies. Level of attainment was assessed with the question “What
was the highest level of study you have completed?”. This was codified using
ten categories from the national classification CNED-2000 [Clasificación
Nacional de Educación 2000], which corresponds to ISCED-97 at the one-digit
level.
The main differences are as follows:
Content: New
questions have been included, while some previous ones were removed as being of
marginal relevance (e.g. availability of solar power), too general
(electricity, availability of a kitchen, etc.), or available from other
statistical sources.
New questions:
i) Place of work or study (means
of travel to place of work or study; number of trips daily; time taken to
travel to place of work or study; hours of work; new headings now included in
relation to economic activity, concerning voluntary work and dependants);
ii)
Year of taking up occupancy of accommodation;
iii)
Second home, motor vehicles;
iv) Type of
location;
v)
Problems with the accommodation and surrounding area.
As regards the
processing of the data, an important innovation has been the use of
high-throughput scanners to capture data in questionnaires and the use of
optical recognition technology.
The publishing institution is the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Paseo de la
Castellana, 183, 28046 Madrid.
The timetable for publishing census data
for 2001 was as follows:
July 2002: Definitive population figures.
December 2002: Advance data (basic
demographic characteristics).
March 2003: Advance data (relating to
persons, households, dwellings, buildings).
End of 2003: Final files obtained,
dissemination of final results starts.
The principal means of dissemination will be the census web site (www.ine.es) although use will also be made
of a number of conventional printed publications.