Comparability

Comparability - geographical

It is possible to find statistics regarding economy and employment of culture in other countries, even though there are no international guidelines for compiling this type of statistic.

The European Commision regularly publishes publications and statistics in collaboration with Eurostat, which overlap with these statistics in terms of subjects.

See, for example, the cultural sector, cultural and creative industries and cultural and creative sectors.

UNESCO has also published reports regarding the subject of cultural and creative industries.

Comparability over time

The input-output tables in the statistics regarding the importance of the cultural and creative industries in the national economy are based on the national accounts and are, similarly, comparable over time. The implementation of fundamentally new international guidelines will, as far as possible, result in retrospective revisions to ensure comparability over time. From 2014 onwards, the input-output tables at current prices are based on the national accounts' supply and use tables.

The figures for turnover and employment from The General Enterprise Statistics (GF), and imports and exports from foreign trade in goods and services used for weighting in the statistics, are continuously updated alongside the release of a new reference year. Due to missing data from foreign trade in goods and services, the weights for mapping industries for the reference years 2014 and 2015 are based on foreign trade in goods and services data from 2016. Similarly, the weights for mapping the preliminary version for the reference year 2022 are based on foreign trade in goods and services data from 2021, as the final version of the foreign trade in goods and services data has not yet been published.

The two most recent reference years are based on preliminary versions of the 69 Industry classification in the Danish National Accounts, which means the uncertainty here is higher, than in the final versions based on the full 117 Industry classification in the Danish National Accounts. In addition, the periods of 2021 and 2022 are preliminary versions, and they are also influenced by significant economic changes brought by COVID-19, making the reference years subject to increased uncertainty.

Coherence - cross domain

Several of the cultural topics addressed in the statistics are also used in other statistics related to economy and employment in culture. These include, Payments by the Ministry of Culture, Public Funding for Cultural Purposes, and Cultural Business Structure and Labour Market.

The classification of the cultural industries, consisting of 61 activity codes used by Statistics Denmark in the statistics of Cultural Business Structure and Labour Market, as detailed in the statistical documentation, was originally developed based on UNESCO's Framework For Cultural Statistics (2009), which has also been used as a reference framework for discussions regarding the culture industry classification in this statistic.

Since the industry classification used in the input-output tables for the statistics is the same as the national accounts, derived from the 6-digit activity codes from the Danish Industrial Classification 2007, the values in the tables can be compared with other statistics compiled at the 6-digit activity level, provided these are aggregated into the the same classification of cultural and creative industries.

Coherence - internal

The statistics regarding the importance of the cultural and creative industries in the national economy are, in principle, comparable to the publications associated with input-output tables and the national accounts.