Statistical processing

Source data

The statistics are based on information from National Bank, commercial registers, companies’ official financial statements, the Business Register (ESR), and the General Enterprise statistics. The National Bank provides information on foreign direct investments and ownership relationships. Commercial registers and companies’ official financial statements are used as supplementary sources for identifying and validating ownership relationships. The ESR is used to identify the enterprises, while information on the companies’ industry classification and size is obtained from the General Business Statistics.

Frequency of data collection

Yearly.

Data collection

Information is received or collected electronically from the registers and data providers used and is combined with other administrative data.

Data validation

Information on foreign ownership compared between years.

Data compilation

The population is formed on the basis of information about ownership from the National bank and the companies' official accounts. In addition, the companies must be economically active in the year in question, according to the activity criteria applied in the General Enterprise Statistics, and their activity must belong to the market sector (as opposed to, for example, publicly operated enterprises).

National Bank collects data on foreign direct investment in Denmark. Statistics Denmark receives information from the National Bank on foreign owned enterprises in Denmark namely the direct owner, ultimate owner and ownership. National Bank collects information via questionnaire.

In addition to the information received from the National Bank used information from enterprises official accounts and commercial registers. This information is kept together with data from National bank. The Business Register is used to identify the enterprises. Non-foreign-owned enterprises are considered Danish-owned.

From the General enterprise Statistics obtained concerning turnover, number of enterprises and employees for all industries in the private sector.

Adjustment

Not relevant for these statistics.