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 Proportion of households with at least one person aged between 16 and 74 years old and with fixed telephone at home (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Proportion of households with at least one person aged between 16 and 74 years old and with fixed telephone at home (%) by Quintiles of income and Type of access to fixed telephone equipment; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Survey on ICT usage in private households
First available period 2022
Last available period 2025
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Quintiles of income
  • Type of access to fixed telephone equipment
Concepts
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD:  A group of people living at the same dwelling, with either "de jure" or "de facto" family relationships,occupying the all or part of a dwelling; or a single person that fully or partly accupies a dwelling.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • EQUIVALENT INCOME:  The result obtained by dividing the income of each household by its size in terms of equivalent adults, using the OECD-modified scale.
Definition Fixed telephone service - consists of offering the public direct voice transport, in real time, in fixed locations, allowing any user, through equipment connected to a network terminal point, to communicate with another terminal point.
Formule

(Households with at least one person aged between 16 and 74 years old and with fixed telephone at home/ Households with at least one person aged between 16 and 74 years old)*100

Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations To a have a fixed telephone at home includes: to have the equipment in operation or to pay for the fixed telephone service, in dwellings of usual residence.
Last update date 21/11/2025


information presented in 22/11/2025