Statistical processing

Source data

The survey is carried out as a questionnaire-based total count of food wholesalers with a floor limit of DKK 40 million. DKK turnover according to Statistics Denmark's business register of active enterprises (ESR). you swear.

The number of commercial kitchens, restaurants, canteens, cafes, etc. is quite comprehensive. In order to limit resource consumption and respondent burden, data is instead collected among food wholesalers. A general minimum limit of DKK 40 million is also used. DKK in turnover.

The frame population is drawn from the ESR. Delimited by primary or secondary industry code, in some cases supplemented by industrial companies or other industries with wholesale sales. In general, only food wholesalers are included (significant suppliers from other industries may, however, be included). Answers and units from previous surveys are also included in the structure of the population.

Sale of school milk is included. Foreign companies are not included as they are difficult to identify and get answers from. Their significance for the statistics is probably low.

Frequency of data collection

Yearly.

Data collection

Web form.

Data validation

In the validation of the online form, the following warning is triggered when entered: - High or low calculated price per kilo - Failure to indicate quantity by value or vice versa - Revenue for organic foodservice higher than foodservice in general

When validating after submitting the form, the following is checked and, if necessary, corrected. after re contacting the respondents: - High or low calculated kilo price (quantity or value corrected) - Failure to indicate quantity by value or vice versa - High or low proportion of organic food service - Marked changes in the level of sales compared to the previous census year. - Checking of sums at group level

Data compilation

The individual responses are corrected in accordance with the rules for data validation (see Data validation). This is followed by

• some additional corrections of responses
• calculation of organic market share (share of total sales to foodservice)
• calculation of the public sector's share of organic sales to foodservice
• summation and tabulation for publication
• imputation of any missing values and quantities on product groups, primarily based on the average ratio between value and quantity (prices per kilo). In addition, the lack of distribution of revenue on customer groups is imputed based on the average distribution among the other companies.

In the period 2013-2020, companies completely without organics were only included in 2013 and 2017. In the other years, the revenue for these companies was projected based on these two years.

Adjustment

No corrections of data in addition to what has already been described under data validation and data processing.