Municipal Person Registration

Summary

Strengths: This registry provides full coverage of the Dutch population, has great linkage and is also in time. Weaknesses: The registry uses the de jure population and has a separate estimate of the illegal population.

Type of data

Data Source
Registry

Type of Study
Crosssection regular

Data gathering method
Registries

Access to data

Conditions of access
Data cannot be downloaded directly.

Type of available data (e.g. anonymised microdata, aggregated tables, etc.)
Anonymised microdata

Formats available
SPSS (default)

Coverage

Coverage Years of collection, reference years, and sample sizes
Data was collected between 1995 and 2012; data collection is ongoing and is scheduled to continue at some point in the future. It is an integral observation of the Dutch population.

First year of collection
1995

Stratification if applicable
Not applicable

Base used for sampling

Geographical coverage and breakdowns
Entire Dutch population

Age range
No age restrictions

Statistical representativeness
Population representative

Coverage of main and cross-cutting topics
Detailed study of: Personal attributes such as date of birth, sex, marital status, address, moving of people and households between and within municipalities.

Linkage

Standardisation

Possibility of linkage among databases
Linkable to other person databases through anonymised personal number.

Data quality

Entry errors if applicable
Data collected is not always complete and, therefore, partly estimated by CBS (statistically small effects).

Breaks

Consistency of terminology or coding used during collection
Terminology is consistent in time.

Governance

Contact information
Department of Demographic Statistics
Statistics Netherlands
Henri Faasdreef 312
2492 JP Den Haag Netherlands Phone: Infoservice: 003188 570 70 70
Email: info(at)cbs.nl
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Timeliness, transparency
Data is collected monthly and first available 1 month after collection.