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    Annual Report 2024

    Explore our portfolio of international projects for 2024, 26 March 2025 8:00 , By , Klaus Munch Haagensen, Our Annual Report 2024 takes stock of the activities and outcomes of all our international projects in International Consulting throughout the year., In 2024, the second phase of our Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) projects in Ghana and Morocco progressed further, while the SSC project in Vietnam concluded its first phase and prepared for Phase II in 2025. These projects are financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., Our EU-funded projects remained active in Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and the Pan-African Statistics project (PAS II). Meanwhile, our project in the Turkish Cypriot Community, also funded by the EU, concluded in mid-2024. Detailed descriptions of all individual projects are available in the annual report., Beyond a summary of our major project achievements, the report features a special article on the importance of statistics in a development context. Statistics play a vital role in evidence-based decision-making, ensuring effective resource allocation, and promoting transparency and accountability. From tracking social progress to empowering citizens, statistical data is essential for shaping policies that drive real-world change., As part of the Framework Program for Phase II of the SSC, Statistics Denmark has launched a new initiative to support other Danish authorities in their development efforts through data and statistics. This initiative, called “SIAM”, is funded through the SSC program by the Danish MFA, with a budget of 4 million DKK for 2024-2027. More details on this initiative can be found in the annual report., We extend our sincere gratitude to our partner statistical bureaus, embassies, NGOs, and other stakeholders who contributed to our projects in 2024. A special thank you to the EU and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their continued financial support., Read the full report here, , available in both web and printable versions.

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2025/26-03-2025-Annual-report-2024

    Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels

    Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels., 22 August 2023 12:00 ,  , At the same time as Danish experts in Vietnam together with the General Statistical Office (GSO) worked on creating statistical indicators based on administrative micro data, an international conference on “Data ecosystem management, data governance, and data stewardship” took place. Participants were Vietnamese ministries, international institutions, representatives from the private sector and national statistical offices., The full day conference displayed experiences of data integration and cooperation between authorities for the production of high quality official statistics through presentations and discussions. Presentations were held by the national statistical offices of Denmark, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Likewise the international organizations ESCAP and UNFPA contributed with presentations., The conference ended in a lively discussion between the Vietnamese public institutions and the international participants. The conference is considered a valuable leverage to Statistics Denmark’s ongoing efforts to support the modernization and digitalization of the production of official statistics in Vietnam through the Strategic Sector Cooperation program financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., You can read more about the SSC-project in Vietnam here.

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2023/22-08-2023-Pushing-statistical-production-based-on-administrative-data

    Data science team from Ghana wins UN Datathon 2023

    Data Science Team from Ghana got 1st Place overall and also the prizes for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa., 22 January 2024 11:00 ,  , Competing against over 400 teams from all over the world, the GSS team got 1, st, Place overall and also the prize for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges at the Datathon was to create “an innovative data solution which tackles local sustainable development challenges”. The solution should accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using open source data sets and have a geospatial element., The Data Science Team produced an interactive tool which provide decision-makers with information about school enrollment, access to electricity and access to information on a local level based on night light data sources and data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census. The Data Science Team of the GSS was formed in 2022 to strengthen the use of Data Science and ICT at the Ghana Statistical Services. During 2022 and 2023, Statistics Denmark has worked closely with the team building skills in R and showcasing how administrative data can be turned into official statistics., Together with Statistics Denmark the Data Science Team created the , Statsbank Ghana,  , forming the base of the Population and Housing Census Atlas., We have made a small video presenting the Data Science Team and it’s work. , Video on the Data Science Team - 3:30 minutes,  , Read more about the Datathon and the winners on the official UN Datathon website here., The Datathon was supported by the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics. , You can find the UN-homepage with datathon essentials here.

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2024/22-01-2024-data-science-team-from-ghana-wins-un-datathon-2023

    Bullying

    How big is the problem of bullying among children and adults?, Bullying among children, DCUM (Dansk Center for Undervisningsmiljø) is a teaching environment centre that has made several surveys on the , well-being of and bullying among schoolchildren, (in Danish)., Each year, the Ministry of Children and Education initiates , national satisfaction surveys, (in Danish) in schools of primary and lower secondary education., The National Institute of Public Health is in charge of , The School Children Survey, , which is the Danish contribution to the international survey of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study (HBSC). The survey includes information on e.g. the well-being, social relations and , bullying, among children., Cyberbullying, The National Council for Children has conducted several surveys on , cyberbullying, (in Danish)., DCUM (Dansk Center for Undervisningsmiljø) has a themed page on , Digital bullying, , where, among other things, there is a link to a survey among students in 7th, 8th and 9th form on their experiences with cyberbullying (in Danish)., Adult bullying, In 2021, VIVE - the Danish Center for Social Science Research - released a report on the extent of offensive actions and conflicts in the Danish labour market – ", En undersøgelse af omfanget af krænkende handlinger og konflikter på det danske arbejdsmarked, “ (in Danish). In addition to bullying, the report also has findings regarding conflicts, sexual harassment, violence and threats., The Danish Work Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet) is responsible for the survey, ’National Overvågning af Arbejdsmiljøet blandt Lønmodtagere’ (NOA-L), (in Danish), which include questions about violence, threats, bullying and sexual harassment., In 2019, SSI and University of Aalborg published the report ", Sex i Danmark, “ (in Danish), in which a section of the report focuses on the amount of people who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.,  , [This page was last reviewed in November 2024],  

    https://www.dst.dk/en/informationsservice/oss/mob

    Statistics Denmark signs new project with Vietnam

    Today the Director General at Statistics Denmark, Birgitte Anker, joined a project signing ceremony marking a long-term collaboration between Statistics Denmark, the Danish Embassy of Vietnam and the General Statistics Office of Vietnam. , 26 November 2021 13:30 ,  , The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs finances the project titled “Support to Vietnam’s ongoing efforts to improve the quality of official statistics”. It will play an important role in the process towards informed decision-making in Vietnam and support at least four areas:, Modernizing the data collection methods for population and migration statistics , Developing education statistics with the ambition that specific education sectors will have an informed platform, on which to base daily operations and future developments, Introducing Big Data as a new data source in Vietnam , Developing environmental-economic accounts to report on the environmental-related SDGs  , At the ceremony, Birgitte Anker among others said: “We continue to be impressed by the remarkable work from our Vietnamese counterparts. We hope that the cooperation will create more knowledge on the Vietnamese society for evidence-based decision-making and support international agendas like the SDGs“. , Apart from Birgitte Anker, the signing ceremony was represented by the Director General at the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong, and the Danish Ambassador to Vietnam, Kim Højlund Christensen. , We look forward to continue the fruitful collaboration!

    https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/26-11-2021-Statistics-Denmark-signs-new-project-with-Vietnam

    Quality policy

    Statistics Denmark is a professionally and politically independent institution developing, producing and publishing statistics on society. Statistics Denmark produces impartial and objective statistics in accordance with recognised methods and statistical procedures. Furthermore, Statistics Denmark ensures statistical confidentiality. Our goal is for the statistics to be accurate and reliable, coherent and comparable., Statistics Denmark defines the statistics on the basis of users’ needs, publish them timely and punctually and aim to present them in a clear and understandable way. To this end, Statistics Denmark’s professional independence is specified by law, cf. Act on Statistics Denmark, and it is ensured that the staff has adequate education, training and experience to accommodate the current statistical requirements., Statistics Denmark produces and disseminates official statistics and ensures coherence within and between the statistics, including comparability over time and geographical areas. To the widest extent possible, existing administrative sources are used to minimise the reporting burden on enterprises and citizens., Statistics Denmark emphasises good service, efficiency and cost-effectiveness to fulfil the increasing national and international requests. Statistics Denmark participates in the international cooperation and meets the requirements to the European statistical system., Statistics Denmark is working according to well-defined methods and plans. Quality indicators and other important factors concerning processes and products are well-defined, and outputs are monitored in accordance with these. If the quality indicators are not satisfactory, changes and improvements of processes and procedures will be implemented., Statistics Denmark’s quality system is based on the 16 principles in the European statistics Code of Practice, as published by Eurostat:, Professional independence, 1bis Coordination and cooperation, Mandate for data collection and access to data, Adequacy of resources, Commitment to quality, Statistical confidentiality and data protection, Impartiality and objectivity, Sound Methodology, Appropriate statistical procedures, Non-excessive burden on respondents, Cost-effectiveness, Relevance, Accuracy and reliability, Timeliness and punctuality, Coherence and comparability, Accessibility and clarity

    https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/strategi-og-kvalitet/kvalitet-for-statistikproduktion/kvalitetspolitik