Accessibility and clarity

Release calendar

The publication date appears in the release calendar. The date is confirmed in the weeks before.

Release calendar access

The Release Calender can be accessed on our English website: Release Calender.

User access

Statistics are always published at 8:00 a.m. at the day announced in the release calendar. No one outside of Statistics Denmark can access the statistics before they are published.

News release

The preliminary figures are published in "Nyt fra Danmarks Statistik” (in Danish only). In the publication, the main items of the balance of payments are published monthly.

Publications

The balance of payments figures has been included in the publication Statistisk Tiårsoversigt (in Danish only) until 2024.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Balance of payments and international trade in the following tables:

• BBM: Balance of payments monthly by items, receipts/expenditure, country, unit and seasonal adjustment

• VBBM: Versionstable BBM - Balance of payments monthly by version, items, receipts/expenditure, country, unit and seasonal adjustment

• BBQ: Balance of payments quaterly by items, receipts/expenditure and country

• VBBQ: Balance of payments quaterly by version, items, receipts/expenditure and country

• BBY: Balance of payments yearly by items, receipts/expenditure and country

• BBUHV: Transition tabel of goods between foreign trade and balance of payments by items, receipts/expenditure and country

• VBBUHV: Transition tabel for by items between foreign trade and b by version, items, receipts/expenditure and country

• GLOB: Danish manufacturing companies' international production by items, imports and exports and country

• UHFASTP1: External trade in 2021-prices monthly (experimental statistics) by items, imports and exports, price unit and seasonal adjustment. The calculation assumes uniform commodity distribution despite the commodity groups in UHM and PRIS4315 not following the same nomenclature.

Micro-data access

Since the compilation of the balance of payments is based on other sources, there is no collection of microdata. Access to microdata for goods and services can be granted for research through Denmark's Data Portal.

Other

The statistics are included in the compilation of the national accounts and are also submitted to the OECD, the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF.

Confidentiality - policy

Data Confidentiality Policy for Statistics Denmark is applied.

Confidentiality - data treatment

The balance of payments inherits the confidentiality policy from the statistical domains which provide data to the balance of payments and therefore does not publish data that cannot be published in these statistics, for confidentiality reasons. This means that it is not possible to deduce information about confidential data from other figures and sums. This may mean, that other data, need to be confidential in other to maintain confidentiality of the initial record.

Documentation on methodology

In the IMF’s Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual the method for compiling the balance of payments is described.

Quality documentation

Results from the quality evaluation of products and selected processes are available in detail for each statistics and in summary reports for the Working Group on Quality.