Residents per inhabited address point per ha — Flanders — Condition 2013

This indicator gives an estimate of the average number of inhabitants per household per hectare. For each hectare cell, the value of the number of inhabitants is divided by the number of inhabited address points (as a proxy of households) in the hectare cell. For this indicator, the same basic data shall be followed as for the indicator ‘inhabitant density per ha’ and ‘household density per ha’. The population dataset describes the location and number of inhabitants per address using a point file. This file is created by Digitaal Vlaanderen (DV) using data from the Rijksregister. The location of the addresses is determined by a geocoding of the addresses based on CRAB (CRAB population version 0.1). As proxy for the number of households, the number of records in the dataset (i.e. number of addresses) whose population is not equal to “0” or “NoData (-99)” is used. Addresses for which the number of inhabitants is equal to 0 are addresses from the CRAB database that do not appear in the National Register and where no one lives. Addresses with a “NoData” value are addresses for which the number of inhabitants is not exactly known. This is the case, for example, for sub-addresses whose population in the National Register is only known at house number level and not per sub-address. According to this assumption, the total number of households in Flanders is lower than the total number of households reported by the FPS Economy. For this difference, the dataset is corrected at the level of the municipalities based on the statistics of the number of households per municipality. For this purpose, the sum of the number of households per municipality is first made on the basis of the points file. Then the factor of this sum is calculated in relation to the reported number of households by Statbel. This factor is then applied to all address points. For example, if in a given municipality 5 % fewer households are calculated on the basis of the points base compared to statistics, the number of households is increased by 5 % at each point location. More details about the creation of this product and the corresponding figures are therefore now referred to the technical report ‘Indicators Spatial Rendement, condition and evolution 2013-2019 — technical data sheets’, which can be found at https://archief-algemeen.omgeving.vlaanderen.be/xmlui/handle/acd/762878