Statistical processing
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Source data comes from the Danish Health Data Agency, which once a month calculates all sales of human and veterinary medicines in Denmark, after they have validated and quality checked the data.
Source data
External sources: The Register of Pharmaceutical Sales, the Danish Health Data Agency.
Internal sources: The register of Population and The register of Highest Education Attained
Frequency of data collection
The pharmacies reports the information to the Danish Health Data Agency every month.
Data collection
The pharmacies reports electronically to the Danish Health Data Agency’s FTP-server through Medicinnettet.
Data validation
The Danish Health Data Agency validates and quality checks the reported data from the pharmacies.
Totals and subtotals in the statbank are compared with numbers from medstat from The Danish Health Data Agency.
Data compilation
Sales are calculated on an annual basis and the population is limited to people who were in the population on 1st of January of the reference year. Medicines are grouped by medicine type and merged with information of age, sex, place of residence and education.
Adjustment
Not relevant to this statistic