Censuses
European legislation on population and housing censuses
- Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on population and housing censuses (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 14–20
- Commission Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009 of 30 November 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses as regards the technical specifications of the topics and of their breakdowns (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 329, 15.12.2009, p. 29–68
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 519/2010 of 16 June 2010 adopting the programme of the statistical data and of the metadata for population and housing censuses provided for by Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 151, 17.6.2010, p. 1–13
- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010 of 8 December 2010 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses, as regards the modalities and structure of the quality reports and the technical format for data transmission (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 324, 9.12.2010, p. 1–12
- Regulation (EU) No 99/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the European statistical programme 2013–17 (Text with relevance for the EEA and for Switzerland), OJ L 39, 9.2.2013, p. 12–29
- Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on European demographic statistics (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 330, 10.12.2013, p. 39–43
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 205/2014 of 4 March 2014 laying down uniformed conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1260/2013 of the European Parliament and the Council on European demographic statistics, as regards breakdowns of data, deadlines and data revisions (Text with EEA relevance), OJ L 65, 5.3.2014, p. 10–26
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/543 of 22 March 2017 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses as regards the technical specifications of the topics and of their breakdowns (Text with EEA relevance), C/2017/1728, OJ L 78, 23.3.2017, p. 13–58
- Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/712 of 20 April 2017 establishing the reference year and the programme of the statistical data and metadata for population and housing censuses provided for by Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), C/2017/2433, OJ L 105, 21.4.2017, p. 1–11
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/881 of 23 May 2017 implementing Regulation (EC) No 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on population and housing censuses, as regards the modalities and structure of the quality reports and the technical format for data transmission, and amending Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010 (Text with EEA relevance), C/2017/3397, OJ L 135, 24.5.2017, p. 6–14
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1799 of 21 November 2018 on the establishment of a temporary direct statistical action for the dissemination of selected topics of the 2021 population and housing census geocoded to a 1 km2 grid (Text with EEA relevance), C/2018/7597, OJ L 296, 22.11.2018, p. 19–27
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2181 of 16 December 2019 specifying technical characteristics as regards items common to several datasets pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance), C/2019/8842, OJ L 330, 20.12.2019, p. 16–41
The conduct of censuses is closely connected with the regulations on personal data protection and use of databases. Data protection means that the measures required to ensure personal data protection and statistical confidentiality are implemented in all stages of the processing of confidential data.
In national law, the conduct of population and housing censuses is governed by chapter 4, “Census”, of the Official Statistics Act. This chapter defines the additional data on persons and household members that are collected and processed due to the domestic need for official statistics.
Data protection requirements are defined following the legal provisions applicable to the processing of data for statistical and scientific purposes as stipulated by European and also national legislation. Compliance with the lawfulness requirement is the primary measure ensuring that data processing is done only on legitimate grounds.