Labour market status (RAS)
How high are the activity rate and employment rate in Denmark? How many people are employed, unemployed, or outside the labour force? These questions can be answered by the register-based labour market statistics (RAS). RAS is an annual account of the population’s labour market status based on register information.
Explainer on…
The number of individuals in the labor force (employed and unemployed) as a proportion of a given population group
The number of employed persons as a proportion of a given population group
Selected statistics on Labour market status (RAS)
Development in activity rate and employment rate
Starting from the publication on April 28, 2015, RAS is based on the Labor Market Account (AMR_UN), which is a longitudinal register. In this context, RAS has been revised back to November 2008. At the same time, the dating of the statistics was changed, so that it is now dated according to the reference point at the end of November. This means that the most recent assessment is labeled as the end of November 2024, whereas previously it would have been labeled 2025.
Data in AMR_UN come from a number of other sources:
- The eIncome Register
- The Business Statistics Register
- The Statistics on People Receiving Public Benefits
- The Education Statistics
- The Income Statistics
- The Population Statistics
- The Maternity and Sickness Benefits Statistics
- The Occupational Classification Module
Before 2008, the basic data for employees came from the central information form register at SKAT, and these data were not longitudinal.
Employment rate in the municipalities
Starting from the publication on April 28, 2015, RAS is based on the Labor Market Account (AMR_UN), which is a longitudinal register. In this context, RAS has been revised back to November 2008. At the same time, the dating of the statistics was changed, so that it is now dated according to the reference point at the end of November. This means that the most recent assessment is labeled as the end of November 2024, whereas previously it would have been labeled 2025.
Data in AMR_UN come from a number of other sources:
- The eIncome Register
- The Business Statistics Register
- The Statistics on People Receiving Public Benefits
- The Education Statistics
- The Income Statistics
- The Population Statistics
- The Maternity and Sickness Benefits Statistics
- The Occupational Classification Module
Before 2008, the basic data for employees came from the central information form register at SKAT, and these data were not longitudinal.
Labour market status of the population
Starting from the publication on April 28, 2015, RAS is based on the Labor Market Account (AMR_UN), which is a longitudinal register. In this context, RAS has been revised back to November 2008. At the same time, the dating of the statistics was changed, so that it is now dated according to the reference point at the end of November. This means that the most recent assessment is labeled as the end of November 2024, whereas previously it would have been labeled 2025.
Data in AMR_UN come from a number of other sources:
- The eIncome Register
- The Business Statistics Register
- The Statistics on People Receiving Public Benefits
- The Education Statistics
- The Income Statistics
- The Population Statistics
- The Maternity and Sickness Benefits Statistics
- The Occupational Classification Module
Before 2008, the basic data for employees came from the central information form register at SKAT, and these data were not longitudinal.
Development in activity rate by ancestry
Starting from the publication on April 28, 2015, RAS is based on the Labor Market Account (AMR_UN), which is a longitudinal register. In this context, RAS has been revised back to November 2008. At the same time, the dating of the statistics was changed, so that it is now dated according to the reference point at the end of November. This means that the most recent assessment is labeled as the end of November 2024, whereas previously it would have been labeled 2025.
Data in AMR_UN come from a number of other sources:
- The eIncome Register
- The Business Statistics Register
- The Statistics on People Receiving Public Benefits
- The Education Statistics
- The Income Statistics
- The Population Statistics
- The Maternity and Sickness Benefits Statistics
- The Occupational Classification Module
Before 2008, the basic data for employees came from the central information form register at SKAT, and these data were not longitudinal.
Development in employment rate by ancestry
Starting from the publication on April 28, 2015, RAS is based on the Labor Market Account (AMR_UN), which is a longitudinal register. In this context, RAS has been revised back to November 2008. At the same time, the dating of the statistics was changed, so that it is now dated according to the reference point at the end of November. This means that the most recent assessment is labeled as the end of November 2024, whereas previously it would have been labeled 2025.
Data in AMR_UN come from a number of other sources:
- The eIncome Register
- The Business Statistics Register
- The Statistics on People Receiving Public Benefits
- The Education Statistics
- The Income Statistics
- The Population Statistics
- The Maternity and Sickness Benefits Statistics
- The Occupational Classification Module
Before 2008, the basic data for employees came from the central information form register at SKAT, and these data were not longitudinal.
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The purpose the Quarterly Labour Market Status (KAS) is to to provide a description of the Danish population's affiliation to the labour market. KAS is an averaging of the populations affiliation to the labour market per quarter and per year and is published annually. KAS covers the hole population from 2017 and on, while it covers the employed part of the population 1st. - 4th. quarter from 2008 to 2017.
The purpose of the Register-Based Labour Force Statistics (RAS) is to measure the population’s primary attachment to the labour market. This attachment is recorded at the end of November and compiled once a year. The first RAS compilation was made at the end of November 1980.