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Statistics Denmark
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2.1. Metadata last certified
27 February 2014
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27 February 2014
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27 February 2014
3.1. Data description
Not available.
3.2. Classification system
ISCO-08, NACE Rev. 2, etc.
3.3. Coverage - sector
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
3.4.1. Statistical concepts and definitions - Usual residence
Usual residence means the place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage.
Persons usually resident in the place of enumeration but absent, or expected to be absent, at the time of the census for less than one year shall be considered as temporarily absent persons and thus included in the total unsually population. In contrast, persons living or expected to live outside the place of enumeration for one year or more shall not be considered temporarily absent and shall therefore be excluded from the total population. This is regardless of the length of visits that they may pay to their families from time to time.
Persons who are enumerated but do not meet the criteria for usual residence in the place of enumeration, i.e. do not live or do not expect to live in the place of enumeration for a continuous period of at least 12 months, are considered temporarily present and are therefore not counted in the total usually resident population.
3.4.2. Statistical concepts and definitions - Sex
Sex is defined as either man or woman.
3.4.3. Statistical concepts and definitions - Age
The age reached at the reference date (in completed years).
3.4.4. Statistical concepts and definitions - Marital status
Marital status is the (legal) conjugal status of an individual in relation to the marriage laws of the country (de jure status).
A person shall be classified according to his/her most recently acquired legal marital status at the reference date.
'Registered partnerships' are reported only by countries that have a legal framework regulating partnerships that:
(a) lead to legal conjugal obligations between two persons;
(b) are not marriages;
(c) prevent persons to commit themselves into multiple partnerships with different partners.
In countries where the legislation includes provisions for married partners to be 'legally separated', such 'legally separated' persons are classified under 'married'.
The minimum age for marriages and registered partnerships in Denmark is 18 years. Per 1 January 2011 marriages are between two person of opposite sex and registered partnerships are between two persons of same sex. The same laws apply for divorce of marriages and dissolution of registered partnerships and it requires a six months period of separation except for special cases.
3.4.5. Statistical concepts and definitions - Family status
The family nucleus is defined in the narrow sense, that is as two or more persons who belong to the same household and who are related as husband and wife, as partners in a registered partnership, as partners in a consensual union, or as parent and child. Thus a family comprises a couple without children, or a couple with one or more children, or a lone parent with one or more children. This family concept limits relationships between children and adults to direct (first-degree) relationships, that is between parents and children.
Child (son/daughter) refers to a blood, step- or adopted son or daughter (regardless of age or marital status) who has usual residence in the household of at least one of the parents, and who has no partner or own children in the same household. Foster children are not included. A son or daughter who lives with a spouse, with a registered partner, with a partner in a consensual union, or with one or more own children, is not considered to be a child. A child who alternates between two households (for instance if his or her parents are divorced) shall consider the one where he or she spends the majority of the time as his or her household. Where an equal amount of time is spent with both parents the household shall be the one where the child is found at the time on census night.
The term couple shall include married couples, couples in registered partnerships, and couples who live in a consensual union.
Registered partnerships are reported only by countries that have a legal framework regulating partnerships that:
(a) lead to legal conjugal obligations between two persons;
(b) are not marriages;
(c) prevent persons to commit themselves into multiple partnerships with different partners.
Two persons are considered to be partners in a 'consensual union' when they
— belong to the same household, and
— have a marriage-like relationship with each other, and
— are not married to or in a registered partnership with each other.
'Skip-generation households' (households consisting of a grandparent or grandparents and one or more grandchildren, but no parent of those grandchildren) are not included in the definition of a family.
3.4.6. Statistical concepts and definitions - Household status
Private households may be defined according to the 'housekeeping concept' , or, if this is not possible, Member States may apply the 'household-dwelling' concept. Statistics Denmark use the household-dwelling concept:
The household-dwelling concept considers all persons living in a housing unit to be members of the same household, such that there is one household per occupied housing unit. In the household dwelling concept, then, the number of occupied housing units and the number of households occupying them is equal, and the locations of the housing units and house holds are identical.
The category 'Persons living in a private household' comprises 'Persons in a family nucleus' and 'Persons not in a family nucleus'. The category 'Persons in a family nucleus' comprises all persons who belong to a private household that contains a family nucleus of which they are a member. 'Persons not in a family nucleus' comprises all persons who either belong to a non-family household or to a family household without being member of any family nucleus in that household.
A non-family household can be a one-person household ('Living alone') or a multiperson household without any family nucleus. The category 'Not living alone' comprises persons that live either in a multiperson household without any family nucleus or in a family household without being member of any family nucleus in that household. Persons who belong to a skip-generation household and who are not member of any family nucleus in that household shall be classified in the optional category 'Persons living in a household with relative(s)'.
The term 'son/daughter' is defined as the term 'child' in the technical specifications for the topic 'Family status'. 'Husband/wife couple' means a married opposite-sex couple.
'Registered partnership' is defined as in the technical specifications for the topic 'Legal marital status'. 'Consensual union' is defined as in the technical specifications for the topic 'Family status'.
The category 'Partners' comprises 'Persons in a married couple', 'Partners in a registered partnership' and 'Partners in a consensual union'.
It is not possible to define 'Primary homeless persons' as described under the definition of 'Usual residence'.
3.4.7. Statistical concepts and definitions - Current activity status
Current activity status' is the current relationship of a person to economic activity, based on a reference period of one week, which may be either a specified, recent, fixed, calendar week, or the last complete calendar week, or the last seven days prior to enumeration.
The 'currently economically active population' comprises all persons who fulfil the requirements for inclusion among the employed or the unemployed.
'Employed' persons comprise all persons aged 15 years or over who during the reference week:
(a) performed at least one hour of work for pay or profit, in cash or in kind, or
(b) were temporarily absent from a job in which they had already worked and to which they maintained a formal attachment, or from a self-employment activity.
The 'unemployed' comprise all persons aged 15 years or over who were:
(a) 'without work', that is, were not in wage employment or self-employment during the reference week; and
(b) 'currently available for work', that is, were available for wage employment or self-employment during the reference week and for two weeks after that; and
(c) 'seeking work', that is, had taken specific steps to seek wage employment or self-employment within four weeks ending with the reference week.
The category ‘Pension or capital income recipients’ include persons who are ‘'Currently not economically active' and either receive a pension or have a capital income of 118.284 DKK (approximately 16,000 Euro) equivalent to the amount persons could receive in cash benefits in 2011.
The category 'Currently not economically active' includes persons below the national minimum age for economic activity.
In ascribing a single activity status to each person, priority is given to the status of 'employed' in preference to 'unemployed', and to the status of 'unemployed' in preference to 'not economically active'.
3.4.8. Statistical concepts and definitions - Occupation
Occupation' refers to the type of work done in a job (that is the main tasks and duties of the work). Persons doing more than one job are allocated an occupation based on their main job, which is identified according to the time spent on the job or, if not available, to the income received.
The breakdown by occupation is available for persons aged 15 or over that were:
— employed during the reference week, or
— unemployed during the reference week, but have ever been in employment
Persons are classified according to the occupation they had during their most recent employment. The categories included in the breakdown 'occupation' correspond to the major groups of the ISCO-08 (COM) classification.
Persons under the age of 15 years, as well as persons aged 15 or over that were:
— not economically active during the reference week, or
— unemployed, never worked before (i.e. they have never been employed in their lives)
are classified under 'not applicable'.
The allocation of a person within the breakdowns of the topics 'Occupation', 'Industry' and 'Status in employment' is based on the same job.
3.4.9. Statistical concepts and definitions - Industry
Industry (branch of economic activity) is the kind of production or activity of the establishment (or similar unit) in which the job of a currently economically active person is located.
Persons doing more than one job shall be allocated an industry (branch of economic activity) based on their main job, which is to be identified according to the time spent on the job or (if not available) the income received.
The breakdown by industry is available for persons aged 15 or over that were:
— employed during the reference week, or
— unemployed during the reference week, but have ever been in employment
Persons are classified according to the industry they worked in during their most recent employment. The categories included in the breakdown 'industry' list the 21 sections of the NACE Rev. 2 classification and appropriate aggregates.
Persons under the age of 15 years, as well as persons aged 15 or over that were:
— not economically active during the reference week, or
— unemployed, and have never worked before (i.e. have never been employed in their lives)
are classified under 'not applicable'.
The allocation of a person within the breakdowns of the topics 'Occupation', 'Industry' and 'Status in employment' is based on the same job.
3.4.10. Statistical concepts and definitions - Status in employment
An 'employee' is a person who works in a 'paid employment' job, that is a job where the explicit or implicit contract of employment gives the incumbent a basic remuneration, which is independent of the revenue of the unit for which he/she works.
An 'employer' is a person who, working on his or her own account or with a small number of partners, holds a 'self-employment' job and, in this capacity, on a continuous basis (including the reference week) has engaged one or more persons to work for him/her as 'employees'.
If a person is both employer and employee, he/she shall be allocated to only one group according to the time spent on the job or (if not available) the income received.
An 'own-account worker' is a person who, working on his/her own account or with one or a few partners, holds a 'self-employment job' and has not engaged, on a continuous basis (including the reference week), any 'employees'.
A 'contributing family worker' is a person who
— holds a 'self-employment’ job in a market-oriented establishment operated by a related person, living in the same household, and
— cannot be regarded as a partner (that is an employer or own-account worker) because the person is not a joint owner of the establishment.
A 'member of a producers' cooperative' is a person who holds a 'self-employment' job in an establishment organised as a coop erative, in which each member takes part on an equal footing with other members in determining the organisation of production, sales and/or other work, the investments and the distribution of the proceeds among the members.
3.4.11. Statistical concepts and definitions - Place of work
The location of the place of work is the geographical area in which a currently employed person does his/her job.
The place of work of those mostly working at home is the same as their usual residence. The term 'working' refers to work done as an 'employed person' as defined under the topic 'Current activity status'. 'Mostly' working at home means that the person spends all or most of the time working at home, and less, or no, time in a place of work other than at home.
In some cases the employees does not do his/her job at any of the workplaces of the employers. Instead they use their usual residence as point of departure for outgoing jobs or the job is being done close to the usual residence or in several working places. This applies to jobs in sectors such as cleaning, insurance and human health and social work activities (such as daycare mothers and district nursing). The location of work are in these cases applied to fictive work place addresses. In general jobs in the municipalities will be applied the address of the municipality and jobs in the private sectors will be applied the address of the persons usual residence.
3.4.12. Statistical concepts and definitions - Educational attainment
'Educational attainment' refers to the highest level successfully completed in the educational system in Denmark. Education completed abroad will be included if they have been approved by the Agency for International Education or collected via survey on immigrants’ education. Data on educational attainment collected via surveys will be overruled by an education completed in Denmark. All education which is relevant to the completion of a level is taken into account even if this was provided outside schools and universities.
Persons aged 15 years or over are classified under only one of the categories according to their educational attainment (highest completed level). Persons under the age of 15 years are classified under 'not applicable'.
3.4.13. Statistical concepts and definitions - Size of the locality
A locality is defined as a distinct population cluster, that is an area defined by population living in neighbouring or contiguous buildings. Such buildings may either:
(a) form a continuous built-up area with a clearly recognisable street formation; or
(b) though not part of such a built-up area, comprise a group of buildings to which a locally recognised place name is uniquely attached; or
(c) though not meeting either of the above two criteria, constitute a group of buildings, none of which is separated from its nearest neighbour by more than 200 metres.
3.4.14. Statistical concepts and definitions - Place of birth
Place of birth is defined as the place of usual residence of the mother at the time of the birth, or, if not available, as the place in which the birth took place.
Information on the country of birth is based on the international boundaries existing on 1 January 2011. 'EU Member State', in particular, means a country that is a member of the European Union on 1 January 2011. The list of countries in the breakdown 'country/place of birth' serves only for statistical purposes.
For reporting countries that are EU Member States, the sub-category under the category 'other EU Member State' that refers to their Member State does not apply. For reporting countries that are not EU Member States, the category 'Other EU Member State' shall be read as 'EU Member State'.
The category 'Information not classifiable according to current borders' covers those persons whose country of birth existed at the time of the birth, but no longer exists at the time of the census, and who cannot be allocated uniquely to one country existing at the time of the census, i.e. according to current borders.
The category 'outside any country' covers persons for whom the usual residence of the mother at the time of the birth is not known and who where born outside the borders of any country, for example at sea or in the air.
3.4.15. Statistical concepts and definitions - Country of citizenship
Citizenship is defined as the particular legal bond between an individual and his/her State, acquired by birth or naturalisation, whether by declaration, option, marriage or other means according to the national legislation.
A person with two or more citizenships is allocated to only one country of citizenship, to be determined in the following order of precedence:
1. reporting country; or
2. if the person does not have the citizenship of the reporting country: other EU Member State; 3. if the person does not have the citizenship of another EU Member State: other country outside the European Union.
'EU Member State' means a country that is a member of the European Union on 1 January 2011. The list of countries in the breakdown 'Country of citizenship' shall only apply for statistical purposes.
For reporting countries that are EU Member States, the sub-category of the category 'citizenship not of reporting country, but other EU Member State' that refers to their Member State does not apply. For reporting countries that are not EU Member States, the category 'citizenship not of reporting country, but other EU Member State' shall be changed to 'citizenship of an EU Member State'.
Persons who are neither citizens of any country nor stateless and who have some but not all of the rights and duties associated with citizenship shall be classified under 'recognised non-citizens'.
3.4.16. Statistical concepts and definitions - Year of arrival in the country
The year of arrival is the calendar year in which a person most recently established usual residence in the country. The data for 2011 refer to the time span between 1 January 2011 and the reference date.
3.4.17. Statistical concepts and definitions - Residence one year before
This indicates the relationship between the current place of usual residence and the place of usual residence one year prior to the census. Children under one year of age are classified under 'Not applicable'.
3.4.18. Statistical concepts and definitions - Housing arrangements
The topic 'Housing arrangements' covers the whole population and refers to the type of housing in which a person usually resides at the time of the census. This covers all persons who are usual residents in different types of living quarters, or who do not have a usual residence and stay temporarily in some type of living quarters, or who are roofless, sleeping rough or in emergency shelters, when the census is taken.
Occupants are persons with their usual residence in the places listed in the respective category.
'Conventional dwellings' are structurally separate and independent premises at fixed locations which are designed for permanent human habitation and are, at the reference date, either used as a residence, or vacant, or reserved for seasonal or secondary use.
'Separate' means surrounded by walls and covered by a roof or ceiling so that one or more persons can isolate themselves. 'Independent' means having direct access from a street or a staircase, passage, gallery or grounds.
'Other housing units' are huts, cabins, shacks, shanties, caravans, houseboats, barns, mills, caves or any other shelter used for human habitation at the time of the census, irrespective if it was designed for human habitation.
'Collective living quarters' are premises which are designed for habitation by large groups of individuals or several households and which are used as the usual residence of at least one person at the time of the census.
'Occupied conventional dwellings', 'other housing units' and 'collective living quarters' together represent'‘living quarters'. Any 'living quarter' must be the usual residence of at least one person.
The sum of occupied conventional dwellings and other housing units represents 'housing units'.
The homeless (persons who are not usual residents in any living quarter category) can be persons living in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters (primary homelessness) or persons moving frequently between temporary accommodation (secondary homelessness).
3.4.19. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of family nucleus
The family nucleus is defined in the narrow sense, that is as two or more persons who belong to the same household and who are related as husband and wife, as partners in a registered partnership, as partners in a consensual union, or as parent and child. Thus a family comprises a couple without children, or a couple with one or more children, or a lone parent with one or more children. This family concept limits relationships between children and adults to direct (first-degree) relationships, that is between parents and children.
Child (son/daughter) refers to a blood, step- or adopted son or daughter (regardless of age or marital status) who has usual residence in the household of at least one of the parents, and who has no partner or own children in the same household. Foster children are not included. A son or daughter who lives with a spouse, with a registered partner, with a partner in a consensual union, or with one or more own children, is not considered to be a child. A child who alternates between two households (for instance if his or her parents are divorced) shall consider the one where he or she spends the majority of the time as his or her household. Where an equal amount of time is spent with both parents the household shall be the one where the child is found at the time on census night.
The term couple shall include married couples, couples in registered partnerships, and couples who live in a consensual union.
Registered partnerships are reported only by countries that have a legal framework regulating partnerships that:
(a) lead to legal conjugal obligations between two persons;
(b) are not marriages;
(c) prevent persons to commit themselves into multiple partnerships with different partners.
Two persons are considered to be partners in a 'consensual union' when they
— belong to the same household, and
— have a marriage-like relationship with each other, and
— are not married to or in a registered partnership with each other.
'Skip-generation households' (households consisting of a grandparent or grandparents and one or more grandchildren, but no parent of those grandchildren) are not included in the definition of a family.
3.4.20. Statistical concepts and definitions - Size of family nucleus
The family nucleus is defined in the narrow sense, that is as two or more persons who belong to the same household and who are related as husband and wife, as partners in a registered partnership, as partners in a consensual union, or as parent and child. Thus a family comprises a couple without children, or a couple with one or more children, or a lone parent with one or more children. This family concept limits relationships between children and adults to direct (first-degree) relationships, that is between parents and children.
Child (son/daughter) refers to a blood, step- or adopted son or daughter (regardless of age or marital status) who has usual residence in the household of at least one of the parents, and who has no partner or own children in the same household. Foster children are not included. A son or daughter who lives with a spouse, with a registered partner, with a partner in a consensual union, or with one or more own children, is not considered to be a child. A child who alternates between two households (for instance if his or her parents are divorced) shall consider the one where he or she spends the majority of the time as his or her household. Where an equal amount of time is spent with both parents the household shall be the one where the child is found at the time on census night.
The term couple shall include married couples, couples in registered partnerships, and couples who live in a consensual union.
Registered partnerships are reported only by countries that have a legal framework regulating partnerships that:
(a) lead to legal conjugal obligations between two persons;
(b) are not marriages;
(c) prevent persons to commit themselves into multiple partnerships with different partners.
Two persons are considered to be partners in a 'consensual union' when they
— belong to the same household, and
— have a marriage-like relationship with each other, and
— are not married to or in a registered partnership with each other.
'Skip-generation households' (households consisting of a grandparent or grandparents and one or more grandchildren, but no parent of those grandchildren) are not included in the definition of a family.
3.4.21. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of private household
Private households may be defined according to the 'housekeeping concept' , or, if this is not possible, Member States may apply the 'household-dwelling' concept.
1. Housekeeping concept
According to the housekeeping concept, a private household is either:
(a) A one-person household, that is a person who lives alone in a separate housing unit or who occupies, as a lodger, a separate room (or rooms) of a housing unit but does not join with any of the other occupants of the housing unit to form part of a multiperson household as defined below; or
(b) A multiperson household, that is a group of two or more persons who combine to occupy the whole or part of a housing unit and to provide themselves with food and possibly other essentials for living. Members of the group may pool their incomes to a greater or lesser extent.
2. Household-dwelling concept
The household-dwelling concept considers all persons living in a housing unit to be members of the same household, such that there is one household per occupied housing unit. In the household dwelling concept, then, the number of occupied housing units and the number of households occupying them is equal, and the locations of the housing units and house holds are identical.
The category 'Persons living in a private household' comprises 'Persons in a family nucleus' and 'Persons not in a family nucleus'. The category 'Persons in a family nucleus' comprises all persons who belong to a private household that contains a family nucleus of which they are a member. 'Persons not in a family nucleus' comprises all persons who either belong to a non-family household or to a family household without being member of any family nucleus in that household.
A non-family household can be a one-person household ('Living alone') or a multiperson household without any family nucleus. The category 'Not living alone' comprises persons that live either in a multiperson household without any family nucleus or in a family household without being member of any family nucleus in that household. Persons who belong to a skip-generation household and who are not member of any family nucleus in that household shall be classified in the optional category 'Persons living in a household with relative(s)'.
The term 'son/daughter' is defined as the term 'child' in the technical specifications for the topic 'Family status'. 'Husband/wife couple' means a married opposite-sex couple.
'Registered partnership' is defined as in the technical specifications for the topic 'Legal marital status'. 'Consensual union' is defined as in the technical specifications for the topic 'Family status'.
The category 'Partners' comprises 'Persons in a married couple', 'Partners in a registered partnership' and 'Partners in a consensual union'.
'Primary homeless persons' are persons living in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters as defined in the technical specifications for the topic 'Type of living quarters'.
3.4.22. Statistical concepts and definitions - Size of private household
Private households may be defined according to the 'housekeeping concept' , or, if this is not possible, Member States may apply the 'household-dwelling' concept.
1. Housekeeping concept
According to the housekeeping concept, a private household is either:
(a) A one-person household, that is a person who lives alone in a separate housing unit or who occupies, as a lodger, a separate room (or rooms) of a housing unit but does not join with any of the other occupants of the housing unit to form part of a multiperson household as defined below; or
(b) A multiperson household, that is a group of two or more persons who combine to occupy the whole or part of a housing unit and to provide themselves with food and possibly other essentials for living. Members of the group may pool their incomes to a greater or lesser extent.
2. Household-dwelling concept
The household-dwelling concept considers all persons living in a housing unit to be members of the same household, such that there is one household per occupied housing unit. In the household dwelling concept, then, the number of occupied housing units and the number of households occupying them is equal, and the locations of the housing units and house holds are identical.
The category 'Persons living in a private household' comprises 'Persons in a family nucleus' and 'Persons not in a family nucleus'. The category 'Persons in a family nucleus' comprises all persons who belong to a private household that contains a family nucleus of which they are a member. 'Persons not in a family nucleus' comprises all persons who either belong to a non-family household or to a family household without being member of any family nucleus in that household.
A non-family household can be a one-person household ('Living alone') or a multiperson household without any family nucleus. The category 'Not living alone' comprises persons that live either in a multiperson household without any family nucleus or in a family household without being member of any family nucleus in that household. Persons who belong to a skip-generation household and who are not member of any family nucleus in that household shall be classified in the optional category 'Persons living in a household with relative(s)'.
The term 'son/daughter' is defined as the term 'child' in the technical specifications for the topic 'Family status'. 'Husband/wife couple' means a married opposite-sex couple.
'Registered partnership' is defined as in the technical specifications for the topic 'Legal marital status'. 'Consensual union' is defined as in the technical specifications for the topic 'Family status'.
The category 'Partners' comprises 'Persons in a married couple', 'Partners in a registered partnership' and 'Partners in a consensual union'.
'Primary homeless persons' are persons living in the streets without a shelter that would fall within the scope of living quarters as defined in the technical specifications for the topic 'Type of living quarters'.
3.4.23. Statistical concepts and definitions - Tenure status of households
The topic 'Tenure status of households' refers to the arrangements under which a private household occupies all or part of a housing unit.
Households that are in the process of paying off a mortgage on the housing unit in which they live or purchasing their housing unit over time under other financial arrangementsare classified under 'Households of which at least one member is the owner of the housing unit'.
Households of which at least one member is the owner of the housing unit and at least one member tenant of all or part of the housing unit are classified under category 'Households of which at least one member is the owner of the housing unit'.
3.4.24. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of living quarter
'Conventional dwellings' are structurally separate and independent premises at fixed locations which are designed for permanent human habitation and are, at the reference date, either used as a residence, or vacant, or reserved for seasonal or secondary use.
'Separate' means surrounded by walls and covered by a roof or ceiling so that one or more persons can isolate themselves. 'Independent' means having direct access from a street or a staircase, passage, gallery or grounds.
'Other housing units' are huts, cabins, shacks, shanties, caravans, houseboats, barns, mills, caves or any other shelter used for human habitation at the time of the census, irrespective if it was designed for human habitation.
'Collective living quarters' are premises which are designed for habitation by large groups of individuals or several households and which are used as the usual residence of at least one person at the time of the census.
'Occupied conventional dwellings', 'other housing units' and 'collective living quarters' together represent'‘living quarters'. Any 'living quarter' must be the usual residence of at least one person.
3.4.25. Statistical concepts and definitions - Occupancy status
'Occupied conventional dwellings' are conventional dwellings which are the usual residence of one or more persons at the time of the census. 'Unoccupied conventional dwellings' are conventional dwellings which are not the usual residence of any person at the time of the census.
Conventional dwellings with persons present but not included in the census are classified under the category 'Dwellings reserved for seasonal or secondary use'.
3.4.26. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of ownership
The topic 'Type of ownership' refers to the ownership of the dwelling and not to that of the land on which the dwelling stands.
'Owner-occupied dwellings' are those where at least one occupant of the dwelling owns parts or the whole of the dwelling. 'Cooperative ownership' refers to ownership within the framework of a housing cooperative.
'Rented dwellings' are those where at least one occupant pays a rent for the occupation of the dwelling, and where no occupant owns parts or the whole of the dwelling.
3.4.27. Statistical concepts and definitions - Number of occupants
The number of occupants of a housing unit is the number of people for whom the housing unit is the usual residence.
3.4.28. Statistical concepts and definitions - Useful floor space
Useful floor space is defined as the floor space measured outside the outer walls excluding non-habitable cellars and attics and, in multi-dwelling buildings, all common spaces; or the total floor space of rooms falling under the concept of 'room'.
3.4.29. Statistical concepts and definitions - Number of rooms
A 'room' is defined as a space in a housing unit enclosed by walls reaching from the floor to the ceiling or roof, of a size large enough to hold a bed for an adult (4 square metres at least) and at least 2 metres high over the major area of the ceiling.
3.4.30. Statistical concepts and definitions - Density standard (floor space)
The topic ‘Density standard’ relates the useful floor space in square metres or the number of rooms to the number of occupants, as specified under the topic 'Number of occupants'.
Data report on the density standard measured by the 'useful floor space', or, if not possible, by the 'number of rooms'.
3.4.31. Statistical concepts and definitions - Density standard (number of rooms)
The topic ‘Density standard’ relates the useful floor space in square metres or the number of rooms to the number of occupants, as specified under the topic 'Number of occupants'.
Data report on the density standard measured by the 'useful floor space', or, if not possible, by the 'number of rooms'.
3.4.32. Statistical concepts and definitions - Water supply system
Water supply system describes whether the housing has piped water in the housing unit.
3.4.33. Statistical concepts and definitions - Toilet facilities
Toilet facilities describes whether there is a flush toilet in the housing unit.
3.4.34. Statistical concepts and definitions - Bathing facilities
A bathing facility is any facility designed to wash the whole body and includes shower facilities.
3.4.35. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of heating
A housing unit is considered as centrally heated if heating is provided either from a community heating centre or from an installation built in the building or in the housing unit, established for heating purposes, without regard to the source of energy.
3.4.36. Statistical concepts and definitions - Type of building
The topic 'Dwellings by type of building' refers to the number of dwellings in the building in which the dwelling is placed.
3.4.37. Statistical concepts and definitions - Period of construction
The topic 'Dwellings by period of construction' refers to the year when the building in which the dwelling is placed was completed.
3.5. Statistical unit
The EU programme for the 2011 population and housing censuses include data on persons, private households, family nuclei, conventional dwellings and living quarters
3.6. Statistical population
Persons enumerated in the 2011 census are those who were usually resident in the territory of the reporting country at the census reference date. Usual residence means the place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage
3.7. Reference area
Data are available at different levels of geographical detail: national, NUTS2, NUTS3 and local administrative units (LAU2)
3.8. Coverage - Time
Data refer to the situation in the reporting country at the census reference date (see item 5)
3.9. Base period
Counts of statistical units
1 January 2011
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
Common reminder of EU legislation
6.1.1. Bodies responsible
Statistics Denmark is responsible for the collection and production of data for the Census 2011.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
Not available.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Statistics Denmark collects and process microdata on persons and businesses. These data are confidential. The protection against misuse of microdata is of crucial importance for preserving the confidence among the population and the business community which is necessary to be able to obtain the best possible data in order for Statistics Denmark to produce statistics of high quality.
In order to ensure the confidentiality in social statistics all data on persons should be subject to disclosure control and all personal data are considered confidential. When producing statistics the basic rule is that it should not be possible to obtain new knowledge about a person from a statistical table. Focus is especially on the incidence of single observations in a cell. If it is possible to identify a person on the basis of the information in the table and the identification only is possible if you already have all the information the identification does not give new information on the person. If identification is possible due to a part of the information in the table it is typically possible to obtain new knowledge and the statistics will need further disclosure control. (Extract from Statistics Denmark’s confidentiality policy: “Datafortrolighedspolitik I Danmarks Statistik”, 17 February 2014Statistics)
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
In order to ensure the statistical confidentiality each primary marginal distribution in the hypercubes has been assessed for confidentiality issues. If the combination of topics would result in any cells giving new information on a person all the cells in the PMG has been considered confidential. As most of the full hypercubes including the secondary marginal distributions has turned out to contain confidential information, it is only the PMGs which do not contain confidential cells which have been released with cell information. Where the full hypercube has not shown any confidential information the full hypercube has been released with information in all cells.
8.1. Release calendar
Data are made available 27 months after the end of the reference period (March 2014)
8.2. Release calendar access
8.3. Release policy - user access
Statistics Denmark will not be releasing any data from the Census 2011 as data refering to 1 January 2011 has already been published on the website in 2011 in a different form.
Data on population and housing censuses are disseminated every decade
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
Statistics Denmark does not publish data from the Census 2011, since data on the population and housing issues from statistical registers are disseminated shortly after the reference date at Statistics Denmark’s website
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Statistics Denmark does not publish data from the Census 2011, since data on the population and housing issues from statistical registers are disseminated shortly after the reference date at Statistics Denmark’s website
10.3. Dissemination format - online database
Statistics Denmark does not publish data from the Census 2011, since data on the population and housing issues from statistical registers are disseminated shortly after the reference date at Statistics Denmark’s website
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access
Statistics Denmark does not publish data from the Census 2011, since data on the population and housing issues from statistical registers are disseminated shortly after the reference date at Statistics Denmark’s website
10.5. Dissemination format - other
Statistics Denmark does not publish data from the Census 2011, since data on the population and housing issues from statistical registers are disseminated shortly after the reference date at Statistics Denmark’s website
10.6. Documentation on methodology
There is no link to other methodology
10.7. Quality management - documentation
There is no link to relevant documentation
11.1. Quality assurance
There are no guidelines available
11.2. Quality management - assessment
11.2.1. Coverage assessment
The administrative registers used for producing statistical registers which are used to compile the census data are considered of high quality and to cover the whole population.
11.2.2. Post-enumeration survey(s)
Statistics Denmark is not conducting any post-enumeration surveys since the administrative registers used for producing statistical registers which are used to compile the census data are considered of high quality and to cover the whole population.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The census data disseminated by Eurostat are addressed to policy makers, researchers, media and the general public.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
No user satisfaction surveys are carried out. User inquiries are handled by the Eurostat User Support service.
12.3. Completeness
Depends on the availability of data transmitted by the National Statistical Institutes.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
13.1.1. Overall accuracy - Usual residence
Due to a delay in emigrations there is an overcount of approximately 7,000 persons in the population register. This is equivalent to 1.3 permille of the population
13.1.2. Overall accuracy - Sex
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.3. Overall accuracy - Age
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.4. Overall accuracy - Marital status
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.5. Overall accuracy - Family status
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.6. Overall accuracy - Household status
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.7. Overall accuracy - Current activity status
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.8. Overall accuracy - Occupation
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.9. Overall accuracy - Industry
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.10. Overall accuracy - Status in employment
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.11. Overall accuracy - Place of work
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.12. Overall accuracy - Educational attainment
Information on immigrants educational attainment from other countries are rarely recorded in the Danish statistical register on educational attainment and the educational attainment for immigrants is therefore often unknown.
13.1.13. Overall accuracy - Size of the locality
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.14. Overall accuracy - Place of birth
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.15. Overall accuracy - Country of citizenship
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.16. Overall accuracy - Year of arrival in the country
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.17. Overall accuracy - Residence one year before
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.18. Overall accuracy - Housing arrangements
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.19. Overall accuracy - Type of family nucleus
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.20. Overall accuracy - Size of family nucleus
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.21. Overall accuracy - Type of private household
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.22. Overall accuracy - Size of private household
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.23. Overall accuracy - Tenure status of households
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.24. Overall accuracy - Type of living quarter
The number of ‘Collective living quarters’ are uncertain due to problems of registration
13.1.25. Overall accuracy - Occupancy status
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.26. Overall accuracy - Type of ownership
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.27. Overall accuracy - Number of occupants
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.28. Overall accuracy - Useful floor space
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.29. Overall accuracy - Number of rooms
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.30. Overall accuracy - Density standard (floor space)
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.31. Overall accuracy - Density standard (number of rooms)
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.32. Overall accuracy - Water supply system
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.33. Overall accuracy - Toilet facilities
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.34. Overall accuracy - Bathing facilities
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.35. Overall accuracy - Type of heating
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.36. Overall accuracy - Type of building
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.1.37. Overall accuracy - Period of construction
There are no particular reasons for data unreliability for this topic
13.2. Sampling error
13.3. Non-sampling error
14.1. Timeliness
Hypercubes where all transmitted to the Commission by the latest on 21 March 2014.
14.2. Punctuality
15.1. Comparability - geographical
The data is fully comparable between geographical areas.
15.2. Comparability - over time
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Figures provided by the National Statistical Institutes in the framework of the 2011 Population and Housing Census may differ from those transmitted in other statistical domains due to the cross domain differences in definitions and methodologies used. For additional information please see metadata specific to each domai
15.4. Coherence - internal
Internal coherence is assured by regulations defining breakdowns and definitions of topics (Regulation (EC) No 1201/2009, Regulation (EU) No 519/2010, Regulation (EU) No 1151/2010)
Census 2011 data for Eurostat is based on data in the Danish statistical registers which are updated at least yearly via data from administrative registers. The cost for the Census 2011 therefore only includes the work which has been done to extract and deliver the data according to the regulation. The cost does not include the ongoing work of constructing, updating and maintaining the statistical registers. The extra cost for producing the hypercubes is two full years work for one person or approximately 200,000 Euros.
17.1. Data revision - policy
17.2. Data revision - practice
Statistics Denmark has no intention of data revision on the data used for the census.
18.1. Source data
18.1.1. List of data sources
18.1.1.1. List of data sources - data on persons
- Statistical register on persons)
- Statistical register on educational attainments)
- Statistical register on employment status)
- Statistical register on income
- Statistical register on persons and dwellings
18.1.1.2. List of data sources - data on households
- Statistical register on persons
- Statistical register on families
18.1.1.3. List of data sources - data on family nuclei
- Statistical register on persons
- Statistical register on families
18.1.1.4. List of data sources - data on conventional dwellings
- Statistical register on dwellings
18.1.1.5. List of data sources - data on living quarters
- Statistical register on dwellings
18.1.2. Classification of data sources
18.1.2.1. Classification of data sources - data on persons
02.Register-based censuses18.1.2.2. Classification of data sources - data on households
02.Register-based censuses18.1.2.3. Classification of data sources - data on family nuclei
02.Register-based censuses18.1.2.4. Classification of data sources - data on conventional dwellings
02.Register-based censuses18.1.2.5. Classification of data sources - data on living quarters
02.Register-based censuses18.2. Frequency of data collection
Data on population and housing censuses are collected every decade, in a reference year that falls during the beginning of every decade
18.3. Data collection
Statistics Denmark collects data from administrative registers from public authorities. The data is used to create statistical registers on individual level. The main administrative registers used for the statistical registers which are used in the Census are the Central Register on Persons, the Building and Dwelling Register, the Business Register and the Tax Register. The administrative registers are all of high quality as they are necessary tools for the Danish authorities. The statistical registers are constantly being maintained and if new technological possibilities appear the registers are improved accordingly. The registers can be linked via the unique person_id, the work-place id and the address.
18.4. Data validation
For validation of the data in the Census Hub, all the figures are cross-checked with figures published on Statistics Denmark’s webpage.
18.5. Data compilation
Variables in the relevant statistical registers have been recoded and in some cases altered according to the implementing regulations.
18.6. Adjustment
As it was not possible to apply text to "20.1.1. List of data sources" the information is given here:
20.1.1.1. List of data sources – data on persons
- Statistical register on persons)
- Statistical register on educational attainments)
- Statistical register on employment status)
- Statistical register on income
- Statistical register on persons and dwellings
20.1.1.2. List of data sources – data on household
- Statistical register on persons
- Statistical register on families
20.1.1.3. List of data sources – data on family nuclei
- Statistical register on persons
- Statistical register on families
20.1.1.4. List of data sources – data on conventional dwellings
- Statistical register on dwellings
20.1.1.5. List of data sources – data on living quarters
- Statistical register on dwellings
Not available.
27 February 2014
The EU programme for the 2011 population and housing censuses include data on persons, private households, family nuclei, conventional dwellings and living quarters
Persons enumerated in the 2011 census are those who were usually resident in the territory of the reporting country at the census reference date. Usual residence means the place where a person normally spends the daily period of rest, regardless of temporary absences for purposes of recreation, holidays, visits to friends and relatives, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimage
Data are available at different levels of geographical detail: national, NUTS2, NUTS3 and local administrative units (LAU2)
1 January 2011
Counts of statistical units
Variables in the relevant statistical registers have been recoded and in some cases altered according to the implementing regulations.
Data on population and housing censuses are disseminated every decade
Hypercubes where all transmitted to the Commission by the latest on 21 March 2014.
The data is fully comparable between geographical areas.
