Art. 3 – Definitions

register of residents: register maintained manually or electronically by the canton or the commune, in which anyone who is permanently settled or is resident in the canton or in the commune is recorded;

commune of permanent settlement:commune in which a person resides with the intention of remaining there permanently, in order to establish the focus of his or her life there, as must be recognisable to others; a person is regarded as permanently settled in the commune in which he or she has deposited the required document, and may have only one commune of permanent settlement;

commune of residence: commune in which a person resides for a specific purpose, without the intention of remaining there permanently, for a minimum of three consecutive months or three months within a single year; residency for the purpose of attending a educational institution or school and the accommodation of a person in a corrective, residential, or penal institution or hospital constitute a commune of residence;

household: unit comprising everyone who lives in the same dwelling;

identifier: non-descriptive and invariable number which, as a functional element in a database, permits the clear identification of a person or article;

attribute: property of a person or article that may be objectively recorded and described;

attribute characteristic: specific value that an attribute may acquire;

nomenclature: system for the classification and presentation of attribute characteristics;

coding key: code collection that enables the transcription of attribute characteristics recorded in text form into numerical values that can be processed in the computer systems.