Danmarks Statistik - the National Bureau of Statistics
4.1.1.Danmarks Statistik - the National Bureau of Statistics
Danmarks Statistik is the central authority for Danish statistics. It was established to collect, process and publish statistical information on aspects of life in Denmark, either alone or in co-operation with other agencies of local or central government. On request Danmarks Statistik may also compile statistics for local government agencies, private organisations, enterprises, etc. Moreover, Danmarks Statistik supervises or assists in the establishment and use of central registers operated by public authorities, assists public committees and commissions, prepares statistical analyses and forecasts and participates in international statistical co-operation
4.1.1.1. General publications
News from Danmarks Statistik (Nyt fra Danmarks Statistik)
is a rapid release service primarily intended for the news media. It presents summary results of the most important monthly, quarterly and annual inquiries and surveys. As a general rule, more detailed results are later given in Danmarks Statistik's other publications.
The annual number of issues is around 360 and it is obtainable only by subscription.
Monthly Review of Statistics (Statistisk månedsoversigt)
gives an overall view of essential short-term statistics. It is primarily intended for those who wish to follow some key items of important monthly and quarterly statistics.
The Monthly Review contains some of the most frequently used statistical indicators of economic trends in Denmark. Moreover, it contains a separate chapter with international statistics, including main economic indicators.
As far as possible, the statistics are given in the form of annual figures for the last five years and either monthly figures for the last 25 months, or quarterly figures for the last 16-19 quarters.
Another feature of the publication is an economic calendar, i.e. a textual outline of recent events in Denmark that are important for an evaluation of general trends in the Danish economy.
A separately published annual supplement contains source references and notes to the individual tables of the monthly issues.
It also contains an economic calendar covering the entire period of years for which figures are published in the monthly issues.
presents comparable annual statistics for the past ten years thus revealing both trends and structural changes.
The ten-year review is adapted to the educational sector.
The tables are supplemented by charts and definitions of the most important concepts used in the publication within the fields of economics, demography, etc. The ten-year review also contains a politico-economic calendar covering the last 12 years. It appears every year in September.
Statistical Yearbook (Statistisk årbog)
consists of tables (without explanatory test) with the main results of most censuses and surveys conducted by Danmarks Statistik. This makes the Yearbook the major single work summarising statistics compiled by Danmarks Statistik.
In addition there are tabulations of data compiled and published by Danish institutions other than Danmarks Statistik, and a chapter concerning international statistics in the form of abstracts of international publications.
Statistical Yearbook is subdivided into 15 subject groups and each subject group contains a textual description of statistical basis, definitions and other published statistics.
Statistical Yearbook also contains a chapter on international affairs. This chapter is mainly in the form of abstracts from international publications.
Statistical Yearbook has a final section giving surveys of the classifications of occupations and goods used, units of weights and measures and the most recent publications from Danmarks Statistik.
Denmark for 30 years. Statistical survey 1958-1988 (Danmark i 30 år. Statistisk oversigt 1958-1988)
Danmark i 30 år is a brief survey containing statistics for the period 1958-1988. The publication has been developed for educational purposes.
Texts, figures and tables show the development over a period of 30 years within the following fields: population, living conditions, labour market, industry, private consumption, public consumption, foreign trade and national accounts.
Development in Denmark is supplemented by a section on international development. The publication also contains a section with explanations of important terms and concepts.
Danish Statistics on Cultural Matters 1970-1985 (Dansk Kulturstatistik - 1970-1985)
Dansk Kulturstatistik - 1970-1985 was published in 1987 in co-operation with the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. The publication is a collection of statistics and in addition to traditional cultural matters it also deals with such matters as sport and leisure activities, religious activities and mass media and communication.
It also includes sections dealing with the financing of cultural activities, cultural workers, cultural education and cultural studies in addition to the separate sections dealing with the individual cultural fields. Each section starts with a brief text which describes the legislation and data sources as well as comments, tables and charts.
Living conditions in Denmark 1992 (Levevilkår i Danmark 1992)
gives a number of important figures about the living conditions of the Danish population.
The publications contains 17 sections of text, tables and figures on the population's health, education/training, work, economic conditions and environment as well as conditions concerning families, children and young persons, elderly persons, housing conditions, leisure time activities, politics and foreign nationals. It is published every four years.
4.1.1.2. Subject-oriented publications
Statistical News (Statistiske Efterretninger)
is the cornerstone among the publications. It presents both final and preliminary results of all periodic inquiries, surveys and censuses, as well as results of statistics compiled on an ad hoc basis.
In order to make it possible to take out a subscription for individual fields of statistics, Statistical News is divided into 13 subject-groups with the following main contents:
Population and elections (Befolkning og valg)
Population size, foreign nationals, births, deaths, international and external migration, marriages, divorces, families, households, adoptions, legal abortions, population forecasts.
Housing conditions and urban regulations, etc.
National elections, local government elections.
Education and culture (Uddannelse og kultur)
Education/training background of the population, income of students, upper secondary education, university and other higher education, free schools, single-subject courses, vocational training courses.
Cinemas, theatres, museums.
The Danish National Church.
Social Security and justice (Social sikring og retsvaesen)
Social resources, social benefits, social security, statistics relating to the Social Assistance Act, housing allowances, family allowances, maintenance payments to children, daily cash benefits in the event of sickness or maternity, social pensions, part-time pension, cases concerning anticipatory pension, statistics concerning social appeal cases, civil administration of justice, crimes reported to the police, charges, indictments, judgments and orders, criminal law statistics for Greenland.
Labour market (Arbejdsmarket)
Labour force, employment, unemployment, work stoppages, staff statistics in the public sector, commuting statistics.
Incomes, consumption and prices (Indkomst, forbrug og priser)
General income and property statistics, wage statistics, tax-oriented income statistics.
Consumer expectations statistics, consumer studies, durable consumer goods, consumer goods index, net price index, wholesale price index, raw material price index.
Regulation and consumer price index for Greenland.
Agriculture (Landbrug)
Matters concerning production and prices, harvest, stock of grain, pig population, cattle population, dairy products, fertilisers, gross domestic product at factor cost, gross investments, volume and price index, felling in woods and plantations, export subsidies from the Agricultural Fund in Brussels.
Manufacturing industry and energy (Industri og energi)
Turnover in industry, balance sheet statistics for public limited companies and private limited companies in the industrial sector, statistics on economic trends, investment studies, stock statistics.
Energy balance, energy supplies, energy consumption in the industrial sector.
Construction industry (Bygge- og anlaegsvirksomhed)
Employment, building and construction activities, building costs index, contracting price index, regulation index for the residential construction sector.
Evaluation of economic development trends.
Sale of real estate, building survey.
Transport and tourism (Samfærdsel og turisme)
Motor vehicle stock and registrations, goods transport by road, vehicle inspections, road traffic accidents.
Ships, maritime transport, shipping.
Holidays and travel, nights spent in hotels, foreign exchange transactions in tourism, renting of summer houses.
General economic statistics and domestic trade (Generel erhvervsstatistik og handel)
Accounts, business units registered for VAT, sales by non-agricultural industries, register based workplace statistics, index of retail sales.
Export trade (Udenrigshandel)
Imports, exports, quantity indexes, terms of trade, distribution by country, by commodity group and by mode of transport. Export trade of Greenland. Export trade of the Faroe Islands.
Money and credit market (Penge- og kapitalmarked)
Liquidity matters, the state's financial transactions, the liquid funds of county/municipal authorities, financial affairs of harbours, ports and plants, the balances of financial institutions, registration of mortgage deeds and charges etc., issue of bonds, interest rates and exchange rates.
Financial assets of insurance companies and of pension funds.
Forced sales, bankruptcies, compulsory winding-up of companies, compulsory compositions.
National accounts, public finance and balance of payments (Nationalregnskab, offentlige finaser of betalingsbalance)
National accounts, public finance, the financial affairs of the Danish National Church, local government budgets and accounts, personal taxation, advance assessment of income, real estate taxation, taxes and duties, customs and excise duties.
It is possible to take out a subscription for each subject-group of Statistiske Efterretninger. Single copies can also be obtained.
Annual publications, etc.(Årspublikationer m.v.)
gives an all-round description of the statistics produced in various subject fields and includes explanatory text, tables and charts. In addition, this group of publications includes volumes of tables showing the results of major recurrent censuses and surveys. Typically, these publications are also divided into a text section and tables section.
Annual publications
Population flows (Befolkningens bevægelser)
Population of municipalities (Befolkningen i kommunerne)
Building and construction (Bygningsopgørelsen)
External trade of Denmark (Danmarks vareindførsel of - udførsel)
Road traffic accidents (Færdelsuheld )
Income and property assessments (Indkomster og formuer)
Industrial statistics (Industristatistik)
Input-output tables and analyses (Input-output tabeller og analyser)
Local government finances (Kommunale finanser)
Crime statistics (Kriminalstatistik)
Agricultural statistics (Landbrugsstatistik)
National accounts statistics (Nationalregnskabsstatistik)
Accounts statistics for industrial enterprises (Regnskabsstatistik for industrien)
Taxes and duties (Skatter og afgifter)
Other recurrent publications
The administrative division of Denmark (Danmarks administrative indeling)
General elections (Folketingsvalget)
Election of county/municipal councils (Valgene til de kommunale råd)
Statistical inquiries (Statistiske undersøgelser)
is a series designed for publications providing special-purpose processing of available data of statistical studies covering a number of years.
Statistics service (Statistikservice)
with a special, particularly high level of detail or with data combinations.
Generally, the main data contents are listed in time series covering several years and/or standard breakdown by industry or region, at a higher level of detail than the corresponding breakdown given in Statistical News. Thus, the series can be seen as a special service which goes beyond Danmarks Statistik's general publishing obligations.
The series consists of the following publications:
Economic trends in selected countries (Konjunkturtendenser i udvalgte lande )
twice a month
Quarterly national accounts (Kvartalsvise nationalregnskaber)
Statistics of wages and incomes (Løn- of indkomststatistik )
issued 4-6 times a year
Monthly statistics of industrial employment and labour costs (Månedlig beskæftigelses- of lønstatistik for industri)
Monthly statistics of industrial sales and order books (Månedlig ordre- of omsætningsstatistik for industri)
Key figures by postal codes (Nøgletal på postnumre)
annual
Price statistics (Prisstatistik)
monthly
Social statistics (Socialstatistik)
issued 6-10 times a year
Sales of commodities in industry (Varestatistik for industri)
4 series, quarterly
Export trade analysed by commodity and country (Udenrigshandel fordelt på varer og lande)
quarterly
Working papers (Arbejdsnotater)
deal with studies or reviews (often in a preliminary form) which - although also of interest outside Danmarks Statistik - have not been accepted for publication in any other series issued by Danmarks Statistik. Among other publications, the series includes papers on national accounts (which provide documentation and analyses relating to the Danish national accounts) and reports on the model group (progress reports concerning work on a macroeconomic model for Denmark).
The working papers are for sale.
4.1.1.3. Other publications
Danish Nomenclature
Danish Education Nomenclature (Dansk Uddannelses-Nomenklatur - DUN) was published in 1994 in co-operation with the Ministry of Education.
DUN is a classification based on the curricula. It comprises both existing and obsolete types of education and thus the nomenclature covers the educational background of the whole population. The different types of education are grouped into 9 levels.
Sample surveys
Sample surveys in Danmarks Statistik (Stikprøveundersøgelse i Danmarks Statistik) contains descriptions of 23 sample surveys within the following statistical fields:
Agriculture, industry, building and construction, general industrial statistics, commerce, staff matters.
The following areas are described for each survey sample: purpose and characteristics, population, size of sample, stratification, selection of sample, calculation methods, calculation of statistical uncertainties, publication and comparability in terms of periods covered.
The book contains a brief introduction to the general problems in connection with sample surveys.
Occupational groupings code (Danske branchekode)
was published in1992. The publication contains the occupational groupings code (DSE) which is based upon the code drawn up by the UN, International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC). DSE has a hierarchical structure in main groupings, sub-groupings, groupings and occupations.
DSE is used for classification of enterprises on the basis of their main economic activity.
New enterprises
The aim of the publication New enterprises. Statistical data on enterprises founded in 1985 and 1986 (Nye virksomheder. Statistisk belysning of virksomheder etableret i 1985 of 1986) is to improve statistics on the founding of new enterprises.
The study is mainly based on new registrations and cancellations in the register of enterprises kept by the Danish VAT authorities. This makes it possible to eliminate transfers of undertakings and restructuring of enterprises.
The report describes the establishment of new enterprises on the basis of a number of structural and economic factors, including a breakdown on economic sector, location, turnover, exports, employment, gender and age of the entrepreneur.
The report was published in 1990 by Danmarks Statistik and the Technological Council.
Environment statistics
Economics and the environment from a statistical point of view (økonomi of miljø i statistisk belysning) is a report which was prepared by the Zeuthen committee in 1990. The committee draws the conclusion that there is a need to give higher priority to developing statistics relating to environmental matters.
The committee further points to the need for more systematic and coherent statistics to illustrate physical aspects of the environment and recommends a thorough analysis of the production and publishing of statistics in this field.
The committee also recommends that the national accounts should be supplemented by so called "satellite" accounts which may illustrate the connection between the environment and the economy.
Survey of statistics
Every year in January, Danmarks Statistik publishes its activity plan for the coming year. The activity plan also describes planned changes in the current production of statistics.
Guide to statistics
Guide to statistics (Vejviser i statistikken) gives a systematic survey of the figures etc. which are used in the current production of statistics by Danmarks Statistik. A brief description is given for each survey of the content and data collection, a survey of where the results are published and information on databases and various services. Furthermore, it is indicated where the method used is described and a description is also given of any future development plans. Reference is also given to supplementary statistics.
Publications from Danmarks Statistik
Publications from Danmarks Statistik (Danmarks Statistiks publikationer) gives a list of the publications produced by Danmarks Statistik over the preceding years. A description is given of the activities and services of Danmarks Statistik. This publication is also available in English.
The four databases of Danmarks Statistik
An increasing part of the dissemination of information from Danmarks Statistik to its customers/ users takes place in the form of databases. These bases are open on a 24-hour basis and by means of the user's terminal or personal computer it is possible to retrieve more than 400 million statistical data. The databases comprise both the most recent official figures and figures for a number of years back.
Many users store figures from the databases directly in their own personal computer so that they can be combined with text, other figures, etc.
The databases always include the most recent figures, but also data going back 10-20 years. When the key figures are published in News from Danmarks Statistik (Nyt fra Danmarks Statistik) the users of the databases will also have access to the far more detailed data in the databases.
There are four databases:
Danmarks time series database (Danmarks Statistiks tidsseriedatabank - DSTB)
which includes current key figures and time series for the analysis of economic trends.
Trade statistics (Erhvervsstatistisk data - ESDB)
which includes statistics on trade and industry and monthly figures for imports and exports.
Statistics on municipalities and counties (Kommunalstatistisk databank - KSDB)
which includes statistics broken down per county/municipality.
Labour market statistics (Arbejdsmarkedsstatistikkens brugerbank - ABBA)
which mainly includes monthly unemployment statistics.
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