Comparability

Comparability - geographical

Covering private enterprises excluding agriculture, the General enterprise statistics can be compared to the Business Statistics published by Eurostat.

Comparability over time

The General enterprise statistics was republished for the reference years 2019-2022 in 2024. It is based on the new activity threshold, which includes economically active enterprises, and more economic units have been formed for the largest enterprises. The reference years 2019-2023 is based on the new activity threshold. It is therefore not directly comparable to the previous time series covering 2000-2021.

From the reference year 2019, active enterprises, and thereby economically active enterprises, are identified based on an activity threshold. An enterprise will be considered active if it has a work effort above ½ full-time equivalent or turnover, purchases of goods, imports, exports, added value, assets and payroll turnover above a certain threshold. For each industry, the activity threshold is based on the turnover for enterprises with fewer than three full-time employees. Enterprises that own enterprises, or that are jointly registered for VAT or employees with enterprises that are active, are also considered active.

From the reference year 2019 some of the largest enterprises in the Accounts statistics for Non-Agricultural Private Sector are accounted for as economic units. An economic unit is defined as the smallest possible combination of legal units (CVR-Number) under the same ownership, which is assessed to function as a single unit. For the economic units containing multiple legal units, internal transfers between the legal units are eliminated, and their financial statements are consolidated to one. Hereby the economic units will have a slightly lower turnover compared to the legal units, but it will also be closer to the real turnover. If an economic unit consists of legal units in different sector, i.e. one in manufacturing and one in wholesale trade, then the economic unit will be placed in manufacturing. Prior to 2022 there were only few economic units.

Coherence - cross domain

For activity performed in the private sector excluding agriculture, it is possible to compare the statistics with the Danish Accountant statistics for enterprises.

Coherence - internal

The statistics are based on multiple sources with different types of units. Therefore, the statistics are processed so that type of unit will be the same across sources.