Reference metadata describe statistical concepts and methodologies used for the collection and generation of data. They provide information on data quality and, since they are strongly content-oriented, assist users in interpreting the data. Reference metadata, unlike structural metadata, can be decoupled from the data.
Ministère de la Santé et de la Sécurité sociale - Direction de la santé
1.2. Contact organisation unit
Pôle support à l'innovation - Service épidémiologie et statistique
1.3. Contact name
Confidential because of GDPR
1.4. Contact person function
Confidential because of GDPR
1.5. Contact mail address
Direction de la santé
20, rue de Bitbourg
L-1273 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
1.6. Contact email address
Confidential because of GDPR
1.7. Contact phone number
Confidential because of GDPR
1.8. Contact fax number
Confidential because of GDPR
2.1. Metadata last certified
28 August 2025
2.2. Metadata last posted
28 August 2025
2.3. Metadata last update
28 August 2025
3.1. Data description
Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation.
The people active in the healthcare sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) and their status (graduates, practising, migration of doctors and nurses, etc.);
The available healthcare technical resources and facilities (hospital beds, beds in residential care facilities, medical technology, etc.);
The health activities or patient contacts undertaken (hospital discharges, surgical procedures, ambulatory care data, etc.).
Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population.
Data are based mainly on administrative records (see section 18.1 ‘Source data’ for more information).
3.2. Classification system
For the collection of data on healthcare non- expenditure, the classifications used in the System of Health Accounts (SHA) and its related set of International Classification for the Health Accounts are applied.
For Health Employment, the Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 September 2005 on the recognition of professional qualifications apply.
Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.
Where possible, the statistics are separated by sex (male/female), age group and NUTS2 region.
National deviations: see Annex at the bottom of the page.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Public health.
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The healthcare non-expenditure statistics describe the public health sector from a non-monetary perspective. The statistics explain the number or rate of different healthcare resources, facilities and utilisations. A wide range of indicators are collected from a multitude of sources and therefore, details pertaining to individual variables are given in the Annex.
Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.
Registered health professionals, health care facility categories, health care activities.
3.6. Statistical population
All health care staff.
All available beds or equipment in hospitals or in nursing and residential care facilities.
All discharges or procedures performed in all hospitals.
3.7. Reference area
Complete national territory
3.8. Coverage - Time
The coverage depends on the module and the variable:
Eurostat module
Hospital technical resources
2019-reference year, except: operation theatres in hospital: 2010-reference year
Health activities module
Consultations
Teleconsultations
Immunisation
Screening
Hospital aggregates
Exams
Procedures
2003-reference year
2020-reference year
2001-reference year
breast cancer screening programme: 2000-reference year
cervical cancer screening programme: 2013-reference year
colorectal cancer screening programme: reference year
Data from survey (EHIS): 2014 and 2019
2002-reference year, except for the variable "occupancy rate": 2004-reference year
2002-reference year
1999-reference year, except:
total number of cataract surgery, appendicectomy, caesarean section and total number of repair of inguinal hernia: since 1996
cataract surgery, number of outpatients cases, open prostatectomy, hysterectomy, partial excision of mammary gland and total mastectomy: since 2002
hip replacement since 1998
Health employment module
Physicians
Physicians by age and gender
Physicians by categories
Midwives
Nurses
Caring personnel
Dentists
Pharmacists
Physiotherapists
Hospital employment
graduates
practising physicians: 1960-2023
professionnally active physicians: 2004-2017
physicians licensed to practice: 2000-2017
2005-2017
latest data: 2017 except for GP (up to date)
practising midwives: 1995-2017
professionnally active midwives and midwives licensed to practive: 2005-2017
practising nurses: 1995-2023
professionnally active nurses and nurses licensed to practice: 2007-2017
practising: 2009-2017
professionnally active: 2007-2017
practising: 1980-2017
professionnally active: 2012-2017
licensed to practice: 2005-2017
practising: 1980-2017
professionnally active: 2005-2017
licensed to practice: 2013-2017
1995-2017
total hospital employment (number): 2005 and 2006, 2013-2017
Physicians employed in hospitals, other health service providers employed in hospitals and other staff employed in hospitals: 2013-2017
professionnal nurses and midwives employed in hospitals (number), associate professionnal nurses employed in hospitals (number) and health care assistants employed in hospitals (number): 2010-2017
total hospital employment (FTE): 1999-2017
Midwives graduates: 1996-2023
Nursing graduates: 1980-2023
Physical resources module
Hospitals
Hospital beds by function
Hospital beds by sector
ICU beds
Nursing beds
Medical technology
2005-reference year
total hospital beds: 2004-reference year
total curative care beds: 2013-reference year
total rehabilitative care beds: 2013-reference year
total other hospital beds: 2013-reference year
total LTC beds: 2013-reference year
somatic care beds (for all functions): 2015-reference year
psychiatric care beds (for all functions): 2015-reference year
2004-reference year
2019-reference year
(critical care adult beds and ICU use data not available)
2001-2024
CT scanners: 1980-2024
MRI Units: 1990-2024
PET scanners: 2000-2024
gamma-cameras: 2000-2024
mammographs: 1992-2024
radiation therapy equipment: 2000-2023
All medical technology available in HP.1 and HP.3: 2005-2024
Workforce migration module: no data available.
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Absolute numbers at end of reference year or average number during reference period. More details in the annex "sources and methods".
Calendar year.
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
Joint Questionnaire on Non-Monetary Health Care Statistics, which is carried by Eurostat, OECD and WHO-Europe.
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society.
The GDPR (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th of April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
We receive aggregated, non confidential data. The persons/institutions who send us the data are habilitated to treat confidential data (within the institutions' missions, professional secrecy, security IT measures, etc.)
For HDD we encounter small count issues which are solved by Eurostat suppression rules in order to ensure confidentiality.
Data related to beds in residential long-term care facilities are published annually in the activity report of the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region. The activity report of the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region is available on their website.
Please see annex for the methodology applied to each variable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Each institution which provides statistics has its procedures and does its own quality management.
11.1. Quality assurance
Each institution which provides statistics has its procedures and does it's own quality management.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
There are no national quality assessments available
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Important international stakeholders: WHO, Eurostat, OECD;
Important national stakeholders: parliament and public administrations;
Students (such as medicine students, health professions and public health professionals) requiring data/indicator for master or PhD thesis;
Media, civil society and citizens interested in a specific health topic.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
There are no available national data on user satisfaction. Eurostat carries out an annual User satisfaction survey on a central level, see the latest results
12.3. Completeness
Physical resources module: all needed statistics are available except the statistics related to critical care adult beds because intensive care levels are not clearly identified.
Health activities module: all needed statistics are available.
Eurostat module: all needed statistics are available.
Health employment module: all needed statistics are available.
Workforce migration module: Luxembourg is not able to provide reliable information on Health Workforce Migration due to its specificities:
Luxembourg nationals often obtain their diplomas/qualifications abroad, mainly because education is not available in Luxembourg for several health professions. Hence, using the country where the qualification was obtained as a criteria to assess migratory status is not pertinent.
Nearly half of Luxembourg’s population is of foreign origin and some Luxembourg nationals choose to live across the borders. Thus, using nationality as a criteria to assess migratory status is not pertinent.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
High accuracy.
13.2. Sampling error
Not applicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Data is generally available 1 or 2 years later (depending on the variable). It is the time to collect the data and do all the quality control on the data.
14.2. Punctuality
The available data is delivered on time.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
In Luxembourg, there is no subnational level of collecting, coding, transmitting data. NUTS 0 = NUTS 1 = NUTS 2.
15.2. Comparability - over time
Methodology can change over time in Luxembourg. Every change in methodology is described in the annex (Sources and Methods) and if the data is not comparable a break in series is specified.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
The source of data is unique, most of the data is provided by national authorities.
15.4. Coherence - internal
The data are consistent within a given data set.
Once the joint questionnaire received, we (the unit of charge of the coordination of the questionnaire) send data requests to 7 different contacts from 6 different units/organisations and do the follow-up with them. The cost is mostly time spent by the questionnaire coordinator and the contacts to fill in the questionnaire.
17.1. Data revision - policy
No planned revisions.
17.2. Data revision - practice
No planned revisions.
18.1. Source data
Source data for the different variables are given in the Annex at the bottom of the page.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Annual.
18.3. Data collection
Every year, when the data collection for the JQNEHCS is launched, the data responsible disseminate parts of the questionnaire and the document "sources and methods" to previously identified contact persons from other units and organisations (see source of data in the document "sources and methods" which is an annex). These persons fill in the data, update the document "sources and methods" and send the updated documents to the data responsible.
The variables related to "medical technology" of the module Physical resources are updated by the radioprotection unit of the directorate of health
The variables related to screening programmes are updated by the Center in charge of the cancer screening programmes coordination
The variables related to hospitals are updated by the National Health Observatory
The module Health activities is updated by the General Inspectorate of Social Security and the Epidemiology and statistics unit (Documentation and Classification of Hospital Stays)
The module Workforce migration is updated by the General Inspectorate of Social Security
The number of ceasarian procedures is updated by the perinatal health monitoring system (Directorate of Health and Luxembourg Institute of Health)
The number of Beds in residential long-term care facilities is updated by the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region
18.4. Data validation
When the data responsible receives the updated data from the different contact institutions, he verifies that the updates are coherent and ask questions if there is a big variation between years. He checks the methods and the compliance of the national definition and calculation with Eurostat definitions.
Statistics on healthcare non-expenditure provide information on healthcare human resources, healthcare facilities, and healthcare utilisation.
The people active in the healthcare sector (doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.) and their status (graduates, practising, migration of doctors and nurses, etc.);
The available healthcare technical resources and facilities (hospital beds, beds in residential care facilities, medical technology, etc.);
The health activities or patient contacts undertaken (hospital discharges, surgical procedures, ambulatory care data, etc.).
Annual national and regional data are provided in absolute numbers or as a rate of a relevant population.
Data are based mainly on administrative records (see section 18.1 ‘Source data’ for more information).
28 August 2025
The healthcare non-expenditure statistics describe the public health sector from a non-monetary perspective. The statistics explain the number or rate of different healthcare resources, facilities and utilisations. A wide range of indicators are collected from a multitude of sources and therefore, details pertaining to individual variables are given in the Annex.
Definitions of mandatory variables are laid down in Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/2294.
Registered health professionals, health care facility categories, health care activities.
All health care staff.
All available beds or equipment in hospitals or in nursing and residential care facilities.
All discharges or procedures performed in all hospitals.
Complete national territory
Calendar year.
High accuracy.
Absolute numbers at end of reference year or average number during reference period. More details in the annex "sources and methods".
Not applicable.
Source data for the different variables are given in the Annex at the bottom of the page.
The "carte sanitaire" is disseminated every 2 years.
The activity report of the Ministry of Family Affairs, Integration and the Greater Region is available every year.
The general report of the "Inspection générale de la sécurité sociale" is published every year.
Data is generally available 1 or 2 years later (depending on the variable). It is the time to collect the data and do all the quality control on the data.
In Luxembourg, there is no subnational level of collecting, coding, transmitting data. NUTS 0 = NUTS 1 = NUTS 2.
Methodology can change over time in Luxembourg. Every change in methodology is described in the annex (Sources and Methods) and if the data is not comparable a break in series is specified.
