Accessibility and clarity

Release calendar

The publication date appears in the release calendar. The date is confirmed in the weeks before.

Release calendar access

The Release Calender can be accessed on our English website: Release Calender.

User access

Statistics are always published at 8:00 a.m. at the day announced in the release calendar. No one outside of Statistics Denmark can access the statistics before they are published.

News release

These statistics are published quarterly in a Danish press release.

Publications

These statistics was featured in the Statistical Yearbook.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Imports and exports in detail in the following tables:

• KN8MEST: Imports and exports CN (EU Combined Nomenclature) by imports and exports, commodities, country, unit, data source and time

• KN8Y: Imports and exports CN (EU Combined Nomenclature) by imports and exports, commodities, country, unit and time

• SITC2R4: Value of imports and exports (DKK 1.000) by main SITC groups, country, imports and exports, submission of goods and time

• SITC5R4: Imports and exports (DKK 1.000) by main SITC groups, country, imports and exports, unit, submission of goods and time

• UHIXM: Index on external trade in goods by imports and exports, index type, seasonal adjustment and time

• UHIXY: Index on external trade in goods by imports and exports, index type and time
• SITCIXM: Index on external trade in goods by imports and exports, index type, seasonal adjustment, main SITC groups and time
• SITCIXY: Index on imports and export by imports and exports, index type, main SITC groups and time

Micro-data access

In addition to the statistical primary data described above , the primary data contain a range of identifiers (e.g. VAT registration number (so-called SE-no.) and a distribution by type of transaction (ordinary purchases/sales, processing, etc.).

The identifiers make it possible to match the External Trade in Goods Statistics with other business statistics.

Trade by enterprise characteristics is figures based on a match of data in the External Trade Statistics and Business sector statistics.

It is possible to get access to anonymised micro-data through Denmark's Data Portal. Furthermore, DST Consulting can carry out special data extractions.

Other

The statistics are available from the OECD, the UN, the IMF and Eurostat, including Eurostat’s COMEXT database.

Confidentiality - policy

Data Confidentiality Policy for Statistics Denmark is applied.

Confidentiality - data treatment

The compilation of the External Trade in Goods Statistics follows the Data Privacy Policy of Statistics Denmark. Trade in certain commodity/partner country combinations made confidential are not disclosed in the statistics, if necessary by applying secondary confidentiality. The secondary confidentiality ensures that the primary confidentiality data are not disclosed at 2-digit CN chapters and 2-digit SITC- level.

Documentation on methodology

Methodological documentation is only available in Danish.

Quality documentation

Results from the quality evaluation of products and selected processes are available in detail for each statistics and in summary reports for the Working Group on Quality.