#self-reporting

• To self-declare — To affirm, acknowledge, or claim publicly or officially a certain quality, identity, ethnicity, marital status, or asset value on one's own conscience or responsibility, without requiring prior confirmation from a third-party authority. This legal or sociological act represents the baseline pillar in filling out self-declarations or censuses.
• Self-declaration — The act of self-declaring and its result; an official statement made on one's own responsibility through which a person assumes a certain identity, quality, nationality, religious denomination, or financial status before public authorities, without the need for additional proof issued by third parties. This structural act constitutes the demographic pillar in conducting modern censuses.