Crises shelters

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Personal Finances and Welfare, Social Statistics
Silas Turner
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Crises shelters 2024

The purpose of the statistics crisis shelters is to provide information about citizens and children brought along staying at crises shelters in accordance with section 109 in the Act on Social Services. The statistics were first compiled for 2017.

Statistical presentation

These statistics are an annual calculation of the number of stays and the number of citizens and children enrolled in crisis shelters that is established and run in accordance with section 109 of the Act on Social Services. The statistics are grouped by municipality, origin, age and duration of the stay. Reporting to the statistics is mandatory by law.

Statistical processing

Data is received quarterly from the crisis shelters either with the help of a system-generated txt file or via a predefined spreadsheet. Upon receipt, the data sets are reviewed for formal errors, such as incorrect date formats. Next, the data goes through a validation process, after which the statistics are supplemented with background information about the citizens and any brought children from Statistics Denmark's population register.

Relevance

Based on their data strategy for the social sector, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and Senior Citizens has asked Statistics Denmark to collect data and publish statistics on stays and residents at Denmark's crisis shelters according to section 109 of the Act on Social Services. The statistics can be used to broaden the scope of the social field and is supposed to be of interest to anyone interested in social conditions and citizens in socially vulnerable positions.. In the summer of 2023, the women's shelters and other stakeholders have had the opportunity to provide feedback and input to the statistics.

Accuracy and reliability

The statistics are a total count of citizens and children brought to crisis shelters. Some stays are reported anonymously for the citizen and/or children brought to shelters, which may result in missing background information. Therefore, it is not possible to determine whether citizens have been to shelters more than once. Some citizens and children are listed anonymously at one shelter and not anonymously at another. In addition, typing errors or missing dates may occur when manually entering stays. Overlapping stays may also have been reported. However, the majority of these errors are corrected before publication.

Timeliness and punctuality

The statistics are published approximately 6 months after the end of the reference period.

Comparability

In Sweden, Statistics Sweden and the National Agency for Social Affairs and Health compile national surveys on men's violence against women and violence in intimate relationships. Data is compiled from 2017. Up until the end of 2020, women on outpatient services were also included in the statistics.

Accessibility and clarity

These statistics are published in [https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/nyheder-analyser-publ/nyt?psi=3359) In StatBank Denmark, these statistics can be found under the subject Social conditions. For further information, go to the subject page.