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 are published in “Nyt fra Danmarks Statistik” (in Danish).

Publications

The statistics are released in the publications Befolkningens udvikling and Indvandrere i Danmark (both in Danish with summaries in English).

On-line database

The statistics are published in Statbank Denmark under the subjects:

• Population in Denmark
• Immigrants and their descendants
• Births
• Fertility
• Deaths
• Life expectancy
• Households, families and children
• Children
• Marriages
• Divorces
• Internal migrations in Denmark
• Migrations to and from Denmark

Micro-data access

It is possible to gain access to the statistical Micro-data in anonymised form through Statistics Denmark’s researcher scheme. The work with Micro-data takes place only on Statistics Denmark’s servers and only aggregate data can be transferred.

Other

Statistics Denmark’s Consulting division uses population statistics for many services.

Confidentiality - policy

The statistics comply with the Data Confidentiality Policy at Statistics Denmark.

Confidentiality - data treatment

The population tables are defined in a way that does not allow access to information on an individual person.

Documentation on methodology

On the subject page on Fertility, two methodology notes are available, which describe calculation methodologies for fertility and on the subject page on Life expectancy, a note is available that describes the calculation of life expectancy. Similarly, a number of methodology notes are available on ancestry, basis of right of residence etc. on the subject page on Immigrants and their descendants.

On the subject page on Divorces, you can find information on the sources of the divorce rate statistics.

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.