Residential base Population file People: All persons in the Netherlands with personal characteristics, with characteristics of the household to which the person belongs, and with characteristics of the object in which the person lives (01-03-2022 - 01-01-2023)
Description
This Population File People is one of the files that together form the Woonbase.
This population database includes all persons who are present in the Netherlands either on 1 January or on 31 December, with personal characteristics, with characteristics of the household to which the person belongs, and with characteristics of the object in which the person lives.
More information on how to access the data:
> https://www.cbs.nl/en-en/our-services/custom-and-microdata/microdata-self-research
### Methodology
Woonbase is set up to ask the question "Who lives where with whom?" to answer.
To this end, three types of files have been set up per year: a key file, attribute files and population files.
The key file is a bus file for one year, in which the links between a person, a household and an object are recorded. Every time something changes in the link between the three entities, a new record is created.
The attribute files include the attributes of an entity on both 1 January and 31 December for each record.
In the population files, the characteristics of the different entities are combined on 1 January and 31 December according to the links in the key file.
In this way, the question "Who lives where with whom?" be answered in a consistent manner from both individuals, households, and objects.
### Population
Per record a person with characteristics (of person, household and object) on both 1 January and 31 December.