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Electricity and natural gas prices

Natural gas and electricity costs are important to most citizens and enterprises and also in regards to the competitive situation among EU-countries. Therefore, it is relevant with reliable, transparent and comparable price statistics at important energy product.

User Needs

At European level the statistics contributes to a transparent market for energy. The ministries and the government in Denmark are very concerned about energy policy, including energy taxes. The statistics on prices in subgroups and in different levels provide valid information for policy development. Further, the prices can be compared to the prices at other energy products.

User Satisfaction

Recently, there have been no user satisfaction surveys, but it is the assessment, that the statistics provides useful information to all stakeholders.

Data completeness rate

The requirements in the regulation are met. Results in the statbank are complete. For previous years - results are in Eurostat databank - completeness also exists, but same prices were reported for all three size groups of household for natural gas.