Abstract
With Statistics Austria’s new population register (POPREG) it is possible to display the population stock and flow for specific points in time and periods for all territorial sub-units in Austria. POPREG is probably the first population register worldwide in which stock and flow data for all relevant demographic categories are conceptualized under common methodological criteria. Thus the population stock no longer has to be estimated and/or annually updated. The multi-level plausibility checks of the Central Register of Residence (CRR) data on registrations and deregistrations of usual places of residence and of the CRR data on residents with their current main place of residence allow for an improvement in the quality to explain demographic processes. Statistics Austria’s new population register thereby forms a central component of Austria’s statistical system. It provides data on population structure and population development and at the same time forms the central information base for migration statistics. In the future, new synthesis statistics (census register) will be able to be produced through a networked analysis of available register data (e.g. criteria from POPREG networked with criteria from the building and dwelling register or the register of education).
Highlights
Population statistics in Austria was traditionally based on the censuses made every ten years, the births and deaths which were continuously recorded by the registry offices, naturalizations registered by the regional government offices and – since 1996 – the information received by Statistics Austria from around 2 350 local reporting authorities on registrations and deregistrations due to main places of residence being moved over municipality borders
Statistics Austria receives two data files as sources for population and migration statistics from the Central Register of Residence (CRR): (a) data records on all registrations and deregistrations of main places of residence during the previous quarter of the calendar year and (b) data records of current main places of residence registered in the CRR, which are both reported at the end of each quarter of the calendar year
The official population statistics are usually closely linked to concepts and definitions used in the national administrative systems
Summary
Population statistics in Austria was traditionally based on the censuses made every ten years, the births and deaths which were continuously recorded by the registry offices (natural population change statistics), naturalizations registered by the regional government offices (naturalization statistics) and – since 1996 – the information received by Statistics Austria from around 2 350 local reporting authorities (municipalities) on registrations and deregistrations due to main (usual) places of residence being moved over municipality borders (migration statistics 1996 to 2001). From 1996 the municipalities made an annual record of the number of people with a registered usual place of residence arranged by sex and/or nationality categories This ‘inhabitant survey’ was difficult to integrate into the demographic system as the municipality calculations for the federal states. As migration balance estimates needed before 1996 could only be made on the basis of incomplete information, the population figures had to be amended every ten years, when new census results were available. The council of ministers decision in June 2000 documented the political will to carry out no further censuses by surveying the people, but to prepare a register census for 2010 (Kytir et al, 2005) These amended basic conditions made it necessary and possible to construct a new demographic system which mainly processes individual data by main (usual) residence. The “statistical twin” of the CRR is called POPREG (“POPulation REGister”), which constitutes the basis for the new register-based demographic system at Statistics Austria
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