Resident population
In the population statistics, the resident population is usually understood to mean all residents and people who have their sole home in the relevant location or, in the case of residents who have several places of residence , only those who are doing their work, training or schooling from the relevant location. The resident population is counted using censuses .
In Switzerland , this term is still common today and is further differentiated.
Definition (Germany)
With the term no longer used by most statistical offices today , only those persons count as residents who have their predominant residence in the relevant location. The question of whether this is the main or secondary residence is not relevant here. Since students in university cities are usually only registered with a secondary residence, this is irrelevant. They count towards the resident population because they are usually still registered with their legal guardians.
Professional and temporary soldiers as well as members of the border guards and the police in collective accommodation are included in the resident population of their local community. On the other hand, soldiers in basic military service or on military exercises are counted among the resident population of the municipality in which they lived before they were drafted. Members of the foreign armed forces and the diplomatic and consular missions with their family members are excluded . In the census on May 17, 1939, the soldiers who were doing their duty as well as the working men and maids (women) in the Reich Labor Service counted among the resident population of the garrison community and not the home community.
Definition (Switzerland)
In Switzerland, a distinction has been made since 2011:
- the permanent resident population (at the main residence). It includes all Swiss nationals with a main residence in Switzerland as well as all foreign nationals with a residence permit for at least 12 months or a stay of 12 months or more in Switzerland ( foreigner's permit B / C / L / F or N or EDA card, i.e. international Officials, diplomats and their family members). Most of the data from the Federal Statistical Office relate to this "reference population", which also avoids multiple counting of a person.
- The non-permanent resident population at their main place of residence (e.g. foreigners with a short-term residence permit for less than 12 months, persons in the asylum process with a total length of stay of less than 12 months)
- the resident population at the secondary residence (e.g. weekly resident with deposited home ID )
The former term "economic resident population" is no longer used. It was determined on the basis of the community, which a person designated as the center of their life (as a self-declaration).
For their planning, municipalities generally use the total population as the sum of the three parts, since all people use the infrastructure and must be taken into account in planning. For example, Bern defines this as "all persons registered in the city of Bern by means of a certificate of origin, identity card or foreigner's identity card, regardless of length of stay, attendance and absence reports".
History (Germany)
The registration of the inhabitants according to the definition of the "resident population" was introduced in the German Reich with the date of the census of June 16, 1925 (in Austria from 1923) and replaced the census on December 1, 1871 (in Austria from 1869) on Method used for the first time according to the definition of “local population”. This term, which is mostly no longer used today, includes all residents who were at the relevant location on a specific date, including military personnel. This mainly led to problems for people who were traveling and were therefore occasionally counted both at their place of residence and often also at their actual place of residence (double counting). Earlier methods of recording the population were based on inconsistent survey procedures.
The term "resident population" has been replaced in the current registration law by the term "population at the place of the main residence" (main residence) (Section 7 of the reporting regulations of the GDR of July 15, 1965, Section 12 of the Framework Law on Reporting Law of the Federal Republic of Germany of August 16, 1980 and Section 1 of the Austrian Registration Act 1991). The reporting regulations of the GDR from 1965 came into force on January 1, 1966. The new laws based on the Registration Law Framework Act of 1980 were introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany in the individual federal states from April 1, 1983 and, after reunification, also in the new federal states from October 3, 1990. In Austria, the Registration Act 1991 came into force on January 1, 1995.
The “population at the place of the main residence” includes people who have their sole or main residence in the area concerned. For married people with several apartments who do not live separately (i.e. who live together in one household), the apartment that they have reported as the predominantly used apartment is considered to be the main apartment. For all other people with several apartments, the predominantly used apartment is the main apartment. Since students often only have a second residence in the university town, the statistical offices do not count these as residents of the relevant location, in contrast to the definition of “resident population”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent resident population definition at bfs.admin.ch
- ↑ Statistics City of Bern, yearbooks with definitions of the population figures yearbook 2019 p. 16