Statistical processing

Source data

The source of data is an administrative register on housing benefits operated by Udbetaling Danmark.

Frequency of data collection

Data are collected monthly.

Data collection

data is delivered using a system-2-system solution.

Data validation

Cases with invalid data is excluded. The remaining data are used in the statistics.

Data compilation

The housing benefit amount is in some cases reduced due to an upper threshold for the total amount of cash benefit. The actual paid amount used in these statistics is adjusted accordingly. The subsidy rate for a household can changes in the middle of a month for several reasons. In that case, a full month's rate of the most recent housing benefit rate is used. The statistics include the average, median, upper and lower quartile of housing benefit payments and the number of households receiving housing benefits aggregated by municipality (BOST63 ) and age (BOST64).

For 2022 data, data from two data deliveries with two different errors are linked together. In the first delivery, the population was insufficient due to technical problems, but the amounts were correct. In the second delivery, the population was correct but some of the amounts contained errors. Household income and granted amounts are deducted from the first delivery and the rest from the second delivery. If necessary, the income basis and amount were deducted from one of the previous months.

Adjustment

There are no corrections made to data other than what has been mentioned under Data validation and Data processing.