Regional population account, Greenland

The Population Register contains information on all persons who have resided in Greenland after 1 January 1977.The purpose of the register is to be the basis for population statistics, and to supplement other personal information with basic information about each person, like address and family relations.The Population register is updated with information from CPR (Administrative Population Register) where the following information is retrieved: name, gender, age, place of birth, citizenship, marital status, reference to mother, father and spouse, address of residence and more. According to §13 of the Act on Greenland Statistics, no person-related information is disclosed from the register, except for personal numbers, randomly drawn for surveystriangles(lexis)In a period of one calendar year, people in age X will consist of persons from 2 cohorts. The youngest cohort belongs to the lower triangle in a Lexis chart, the oldest cohort belongs to the upper