Relevance

User Needs

RAS is widely used by many external users. That is e.g. municipalities, counties, government departments, the news media and private organizations and enterprises. RAS is primarily used to analyze labour market structures, because it contains very detailed information. Information from RAS are also widely used in other statistical registers and databases maintained by Statistics Denmark. LMA, which RAS is based on, is part of the data foundation for the Working Time Account (WTA). The WTA is a data source for employment in the National accounts.

User Satisfaction

No studies have been conducted on user satisfaction with the statistics. However, many external as well as internal users are using the statistic, and a number of users committees are set up by Statistics Denmark with the purpose to support the dialog with the users, and involve them in the development of the statistics. There is also an expert committee for Labour Market Statistics, where members can express needs, criticism, etc.

Data completeness rate

There are no regulations in this area. RAS follows as good as possible the guidelines from the ILO (International Labour Organization). The ILO is a UN organization that, among other things, sets international guidelines for how the population’s attachment to the labor market should be measured. ILO guidelines are primarily aimed at survey-based measurements (such as the Labour Force Surveys), where individuals provide information about their labor market attachment themselves. Since RAS is based on register data, the ILO requirements have been operationalized for use in a register-based measurement. The ILO guidelines include a set of priority rules for determining the primary attachment to the labor market. According to these guidelines, employment has higher priority than unemployment, while unemployment has higher priority than statuses outside the labor force.