International migration is not taken into account. The population number refer to 1 January or to the last day of the month. However, owing to census activities which commenced in February 2001, there will be no monthly dissemination of data between February and December 2001. Beginning at the end of 2001, dissemination of monthly data will resume. Timeliness 6 weeks after the end of the reference month.
Copies are available on request from the contact person.
The Government approves the National Statistical Data Collection Program each year, but it is the duty of the HCSO to plan and carry out data processing, analysis and publication. The HCSO is independent in determining methodology, release dates, design of surveys and definitions used. All statistics collected and published by the HCSO are governed by the confidentiality provisions which specify that the HCSO cannot publish, or otherwise make available to any individual or organization, statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. The Law on Protection of Personal Data and the Disclosure of Data of Public Interest also specifies that the HCSO cannot publish, or otherwise make available to any individual or organization, statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Copies of these laws are available in Hungarian from the library of the HCSO, POB 51, Budapest, H-1525 Hungary.