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

The statistics on convictions are published in: News from Statistics Denmark.

Publications

The statistics are annually published in the publication Kriminalitet (Criminality).

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Recidivism in the following tables:

• RECIDIV1: Persons by sex, age, duration until recidivism, index penalty, index offence and time
• RECIDIV2: Persons by sex, age, index offence, offence at first recidivism and time
• RECIDIV3: Persons by sex, age, index penalty, index offence, offence at first recidivism, penalty at first recidivism and time
• RECIDIV4: Persons by sex, age, index penalty, index offence, offence (at maximum penalty in follow-up period), penalty (at maximum penalty in follow-up period) and time
• RECIDIV5: Persons by sex, age, index penalty, index offence, recidivism occurrence and time
• RECIDIV6: Persons by sex, age, education, duration until recidivism and time
• RECIDIV7: Persons by sex, age, education, offence (at maximum penalty in follow-up period) and time
• RECIDIV8: Persons by sex, age, education, penalty (at maximum penalty in follow-up period) and time
• RECIDIV9: Persons by sex, age, education, recidivism occurrence and time
• RECIDV10: Persons by sex, age, previous convictions, recidivism occurrence, duration until recidivism and time
• RECIDV11: Persons by sex, age, previous convictions, recidivism occurrence, penalty at first recidivism and time
• RECIDV12: Persons by sex, age, previous convictions, recidivism occurrence, penalty (at maximum penalty in follow-up period) and time

Micro-data access

Data on recidivism are kept as ready-made files containing basic information at individual level. Taylor made statistics can be prepared on bases of the ready-made files. Through Statistics Denmark's Division of Research Service it is possible for researchers to be granted access to anonymized data, i.e., data for which all identification details such as ID numbers have been removed.

Other

Final data are available to DST Consulting, The Division of Research Services and other users in Statistics Denmark in the form of module data.

Confidentiality - policy

In the preparing of Recidivism the guidelines in Statistics Denmark's Data Confidentiality Policy are followed.

Confidentiality - data treatment

The published statistics on Recidivism is distributed by no other characteristica than sex, age and level of education. This ensures that Recidivism not can be related to individuals.

Documentation on methodology

Documentation of the variables in the statistics is available in TIMES.

A description of the statistical method may be found in the annual publication Kriminalitet (Criminality): Concepts and sources of the statistics (danish only).

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.