0 Administrative Information about the Statistical Product


0.1 Name
The population 1. January, the movements and the population in the municipalities and regions

0.2 Subject Area
Population and elections

0.3 Responsible Authority, Office, Person, etc.
Population and elections
Henning Christiansen, phone 39 17 33 05, e-mail: hch@dst.dk
Anna Qvist, phone 39 17 33 01, e-mail: anq@dst.dk
Anita Lange, phone 39 17 33 06, e-mail: anl@dst.dk

0.4 Purpose and History
The purpose of the statistics is to analyse and enlight the size, composition and movements of the population in Denmark. The purpose is to contribute information about the population for planning in relation to the state , the regions, the municipalities or for private users/firms.

0.5 Users and Application
Municipalities, countries, government department and other national organisations which want to take advantage of the statistical field of persons in order to improve the planning.

0.6 Sources
The source of the statistics is Statistic Denmark's population register, which yearly, receives partly an annual outdraw of the total population and partly a weekly outdraw which include information about the weekly events such as removals, emi-/immigrations, births and deaths from CPR (Central Person Register)

0.7 Legal Authority to Collect Data
Law of Statistic Denmark according to announcement nr. 15. By 12 August 1972 according to the amendment, which follow by law nr 386 13 June 1990 and law nr. 1025 19 December 1992.

0.8 Response burden
There is no responce burden as the data are collected via registers by Statistic Denmark

0.9 EU Regulation
Is irrelevant to the statistic


1 Contents


1.1 Description of Contents
The various statistics are based on the resident population in Denmark. The permanent address concept, which is used in the populations statistics, is the same as that used by the local register (the permanent address is defined as the place where you with some regularity sleep, when you are not abroad because of holidays, business trips, or the place where you have your belongings.)

The populations statistics include statistics about births, deaths, marriages, divorces, surviving spouses, registrated partnerships, relocations, emi-/immigrations, naturalizations and adoptions.


The guidance enumerates furthermore the line of direction concerning the decision in case of doubt, for instance persons who have more than one residence, military service, prisoners, sailors, relocations from abroad and persons who take up residence in another place because of working conditions.



Births
The statistics of live born include live-born children born in Denmark by mothers resident in Denmark, whether the birth takes place in Denmark or abroad.

A live-born child is defined as a child, who is born and who shows significant signs on life, for example breathing, screaming or crying.

The basis for compiling the statistics is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR) about live-born children.


Deaths
The statistics of deaths include persons who die in Denmark and who are resident in Denmark, whether the death take place in Denmark or abroad.

CPR receive information from the local register about the persons with residence in Denmark who die abroad. Information about cause of death is not available for the persons who die abroad.

The basis for compiling the statistics is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR) about death.


Marriage
The marriage statistics concern the number of marriages as well as the number of persons married (respectively men and woman).

By calculation the following definition is used:
The number of marriages in Denmark comprises marriages which satisfy the condition that at least one of the two spouses is resident in Denmark. The number of persons married comprises male or female, Danish residents who marry.

The basis for compiling the statistics is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR) about each married person with residence in Denmark.



Dissolution of marriage.
The divorce statistics concern the number of divorces as well as the number of persons divorced.

By calculation the following definition is used:
The number of divorced in Denmark comprises divorces which satisfy the condition that at least one of the two spouses is resident in Denmark. The number of persons divorced comprises male or female Danish residents who have a divorce.

The basis for compiling the statistics is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR) about each divorced person with residence in Denmark.

The statistics on persons becoming widow and widowers comprise persons who are widowed because of the death of the spouse, and who have residence in Denmark. People who are married but live apart because of separation are included in the statistics as married.

The basis for compiling the statistics is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR)



Registered partnersh hip.
The law about registered partnership took effect the 1 of October 1989. The law gave the opportunity for two persons of the same sex who have entered into a registered partnership, with the result that they are placed on the same legal footing as a married couple. Only Adoption does not apply to registered partnerships.

In the table, where the population is broken down on marital status, the 3 types of marital status, registered partnership, repealed partnership and the survivor of two partners are not shown as individual status. Instead they are included in the status which is in force for those married, divorced or widowed.

The statistics are based on the same sources which apply to marriage.



Relocations.
The statistics over internal relocations included all persons, who move to a new residence.

All internal relocations which occurred in the quarter/year are included, that means the statistics are based on occurrences. It thus follows that a person who relocate several times in the quarter/year will appear several times in the statistics of removals.

The basis for compiling the statistics about relocations is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR) about changes in residence.



Migration
External immigration includes Nordic citizens who achieve permanent address in Denmark and non-nordic citizens who are granted a residence permit for more than 3 months or work permit.Moreover, removals from the Faroe Islands and Greenland are not included.

External emigration includes persons who go abroad and give up their permanent address in Denmark. Moreover removals to the Faroe Islands and Greenland are included.

Persons, who migrate, have to inform the local register in the municipality where they have residence. From here it is sent to the CPR.

When a missing person appears, the local register has to report the person to CPR as reappeared instead of imigrated.

From the year 1976 disappeared and reappeared persons with foreign citizenship contained in the statistics over emi-/ and immigrated persons are respectivily.

The background for that is that Statistics Denmark assumed that foreigners, who had disappeared often appears to have left the country and, correspondingly that reappeared foreigners appear as immigrated again.

The basis for compiling the statistics about migrations is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR) about external migrations.



Naturalizations
Naturalizations should be understood as every form of acquiring Danish citizenship.

Naturalization takes place by law. It is necessary to ask for naturalization, it depends on the judgement in each single case whether or not it is greanted. In practice the conditions are set up according to the legal period of stay in the country for the person. Normally the stay has to be for a period of 7 years. For foreigners from the Nordic countries the period of the stay is only 2 years and 4 years for an applicant who has been married with a danish citizen for an least 3 years.

Acquiring Danish citizenship can take place in other ways, for instance by declaration or adoption. For further information refer to the law of citizenship.




Adoptions.
Estimation over adoptions includes children - Danish as well as foreign children, who have been adopted by permission given by the Danish authorities. Adoptions can be family or non-family adoptions. Famiiy adoptions are adoptions where one of the parents adopt the child of the other parent and non-family adoption are adoptions w where for instance, the non biological parent doesn't know the parent who adopts (anonymous adoption - and adoption where a family relation excist between the adoptants and adopted).

According to the law of adoption permission to adopt is only given to persons, who are at least 25 years. When there are special reasons, it is possible to give permission to person who is at least 18 years.

The basis for compiling the statistics over adoptions is Statistics Denmark's populationsregister, which again is based on information drawn from the Central Population Register (CPR), which, by the local register, has received reports from the permitting authorities which is to say the councils (in Copenhagen "Overpræsidiet" ).

1.2 Statistical Concepts
Abortion, legal
Induced abortion, permitted by Danish law.

Abortion, spontaneous
Foetus delivered before the 29th week of pregnancy, without evidence of life (breathing etc.)

Abortion rate,
age-specific
Annual number of legal abortions performed on women in a specified age group, per 1,000 women in the age group.

Abortion rate, general
Annual number of legal abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15-49 years old).

Abortion rate, total
Number of legal abortions that would be performed on 1,000 women during the reproductive period of their lives (ages 15 through 49), if all 1,000 women lived to be 50 years old, and if at each age they experienced the given year's age-specific abortion rates.

Adults
Comprise persons who are 18 years. However, persons under 18 years are regarded as adults, if they have children living at home, or if they have been or are married, or form part of a couple living in consensual union.

Asylum application
An application for permit of residence in pursuance of the sections relating to refugees under the Danish Aliens Act.

Birth
Live birth or stillbirth.

Birth rate, crude
Annual number of live births per 1,000 population.

Descendant
A descendant is defined as a person born in Denmark whose parents (or one of them if there is no available information on the other parent) are either immigrants or descendants with foreign citizenship. If there is no available information on either of the parents and the person in question is a foreign citizen, the person is also defined as a descendant.

Fertility rate, age-specific
Annual number of live births to women in a specified age group, per 1,000 women in the age group.

Fertility rate, general
Annual number of live births per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15-49 years old).

Fertility rate, total
Number of children that would be born alive to 1,000 women during the reproductive period of their lives (ages 15 through 49), if all 1,000 women lived to be 50 years old, and if at each age they experienced the given year's age-specific fertility rates.

First marriage rate
Frequency of marriage (per 10,000) among the never-married population, from one birthday to the next.


Immigrant
An immigrant is defined as a person born abroad whose parents are both (or one of them if there is no available information on the other parent) foreign citizens or were both born abroad. If there is no available information on either of the parents and the person was born abroad, the person is also defined as an immigrant.

Life expectancy
Average further number of years that a person of a specified age can expect to live, assuming that the age-specific mortality levels remain constant (i.e. the rates observed for the period under review). Also termed: (average) expectation of life.

Live birth
Delivery of live-born child, i.e. a child showing evidence of life (breathing etc.) irrespective of the duration of pregnancy.

Live-birth order
Numerical order (first, second, third, etc.) of a live-born child in relation to all the previous live-born children of the mother.

Married couple
A couple who is married to each other and living at the same address.

Mean population
Average number of persons in a population (or sub-population) during a period of time. Previously, this was calculated as half the sum of the populations at the beginning and end of the period. From and including 1989 it has been taken to be the population at the 1st of July for Denmark and Greenland.

Mortality frequency
Indicates (in 100,000s) the frequency of mortality y over a year, from one birthday to the next.

Mortality rate
The annual number of deaths in relation to the annual average number of persons in the population group concerned per 1,000 or per 100,000 population.

Mortality rate, infant
Deaths of live-born children under one year old per 1,000 live births.

Mortality rate, neonatal
Deaths of live-born children under 28 days old per 1,000 live births.

Mortality rate, perinatal
Stillbirths + deaths of live-born children under one week old, per 1,000 births (live births + stillbirths).

Mortality rate,
post-neonatal
Deaths of children aged between 28 days and one year per 1,000 live births.


Natural increase
(of population)
Excess of live births over deaths.


Naturalisation
The granting of Danish citizenship to a person of foreign nationality.
Registered partnerships
Two persons of the same sex who have entered into a registered partnership, with the result that they are placed on the same legal footing as a married couple. Only the Adoption Act does not apply to registered partnerships.

Population forecast
A forecast is a prediction of the future size and composition of the population, subjected to a number of assumptions concerning the future developments in fertility, mortality and net immigration.

Refugee
A person who has been granted a permit of residence as refugee or for humanitarian reasons.

Reproduction rate, gross
Number of daughters that would be born alive to 1,000 women during the reproductive period of their lives (ages 15 through 49), if the 1,000 women lived to be 50 years old, and if at each age they experienced the given year's age-specific fertility rates.

Reproduction rate, net
Number of daughters that would be born alive to 1,000 women during the reproductive period of their lives (ages 15 through 49), if the 1,000 women were annually reduced in number from age 0 according to the given year's age-specific mortality levels, and if at each age they experienced the given year's age-specific fertility rates.

Residence
Place where a person usually sleeps (except when away owing to vacation, illness or similar) and has his/her furniture etc.

Stillbirth
Foetus delivered after the 28th week of pregnancy, without evidence of life (breathing etc.)


2 Time


2.1 Reference Period
For the calculation of the size and composition of the total population from the 1 of January of the a year, the CPR population registered on that day is subsequently adjusted for births, deaths, migrations, marriages and divorces which occurred before 1. January and which were reported to the CPR within the first 28 days of the new year.

Figures for events such as marriages, divorces, internal migrations, external migration and live births are calculated exclusively on the basis of CPR data ajusted for the effect of time-lag in reporting.

For most events (births, deaths, etc.) the time-lag between the date of the event and the date of its entry in the CPR is less than three weeks. This time-lag is taken into account for the compilation of the statistics.

2.2 Date of Publication
From the time when Statistics Denmark has received all the necessary information from CPR, it takes 1-2 weeks to produce and send out. In total Statistics Denmark uses about 7 weeks following the end of the quarter to production.

2.3 Punctuality
The statistic are usually published without delay in relation to the schedled date.

The articles, which are published each quarter, are normally ready for delivery around 6 weeks after the end of the quarter and year.

2.4 Frequency
The articles about the live born children born in Denmark, deaths, emi-/immigrations are published every quarter and year.
Articles about adoption are publish every year.

The statistical piece of news about the foreign citizen people who live in Denmark, removals and emi-/immigration is published each quarter.

The statistical piece of news about relocations (of persons as well of households) is published each year.


3 Accuracy


3.1 Overall accuracy
The statistic is based on the Central Person Register. According to that the CPR is an administrative register and therefore the municipalities themselves have an interest in keeping the quality of the register on a high level. Analysis has shown that the quality of the CPR content is rather good.

3.2 Sources of inaccuracy
According to the statistics on emigration the standard of the source gives some quality problems, because the motive/reason for emigrated persons to inform the local populations register before the emigration isn't very strong. First, at the time when the local populations register tries to get into contact with the person, who has left the country without giving a message, they find out that the person doesn't live at the resident. In such a case the local populations register according doesn't, the rules has to carry out a thorough investigation, if necessary with a little help from the police, in order to prove where the person is residenting. If it is not possible to find the residing, the person has to be registered as disappeared instead of emigrated.

Persons can emigrate once again without having been registered as immigrated. In such a case the person won't have been registrated in the local populationsregister as having residence in the country at all.

3.3 Measures on accuracy
The statistical uncertainty is not calculated.

In most tables with information about the births, deaths and migrations a specified column for net corrections is made.

Net corrections include disappeared and reappeared Danish citizens, and is moreover an entry of balance in relation to the cancellations of births, deaths and migrations, which occured in the quarter or year.


4 Comparability


4.1 Comparability over Time
Since the CPR and the local register has rationalized and improved the procedure of reporting, since the beginning at 1971 the events has been reported faster to the CPR. The statistics have, at the same time become more complete without anything being changed. With a wiew to publishing faster, the period of waiting for the late reporting from CPR, was shortened in the 4.th quarter of 1992 from 40 days to 30 days.

The change of method of estimation hardly influences the estimation when you compare between the estimation of migration in the fourth quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993.

4.2 Comparability with other Statistics
The municipalities work out their own estimations based on information from their own register. These estimations are very seldom in keeping with Statistics Denmark estimations, because the estimation of the municipalities doesn't take the time-lag into account for the compilation of the statistics.

Moreover, especially for international comparisons, Statistics Denmark compiles statistics on long term migration, which according to a UN definition means emigration or immmigration with an expected stay of at least 12 months. However, for the Danish statistics, persons who re-immigrate or re-emigrate within 12 months are excluded. This method yields a more correct picture than statistics based on expectations, but of course it necessitates a delay of 12 months.

4.3 Coherence between provisional and final statistics
In the statistics about birth and death we publish preliminary and final statistics.

The preliminary estimations about the births and deaths are based on the weakly reports from the CPR-register - and are published each quarter of the year. The final statistics including the medical information is based on the certificates from the National Health Service. The final estimations are ready to be published shortly after they are received from The National Health Service. Information is published at the end of the year.


5 Accessibility


5.1 Forms of dissemination
Articles (Nyt fra Danmarks Statistik)

Publications:
Statistical yearbook
The population in the municipalities.
The change of the population
Statistical ten year review.

5.2 Basic material: Storage and usability
In the populations register you find the following information for each person who lived in Denmark at the beginning of the year.

Address date
Address code
Marital status date
Marital status
PNR for father
Indication of National Church
Registration code for place of birth
Date of arrival
PNR for mother
Personal registration number
Citizen code
STATUS
Date for living abroad
PNR of spouse
Date for citizenship
Christian and Surname
Code for residence permission to stay in Denmark (refugee´s)
Dato for residence permission to stay in Denmark

Information on changes
Personal registration number
Transaction type
Date of updating
Date of compilation
Address date
Municipal code
Code of residence
Marital status code
Marital status
PNR for father
Indication of National Church
STATUS
C/O name/adress
Date for living abroad/Code for living abroad
Date for being placed under a legal disability
PNR for spouse
Event date
Age
Majority code for marital status
Father- majority code
Event code
Majority code for being placed under a legal disability
Previous address date
Previous municipality
Previous residence code
Previous marital status date
Previous marital status date
Previous marital status
Previous personal registration number, the father
Pervious relationship with the National Church
Previous authority for registration of birth
Previous personal registration number, the mother
Previous citizenship/authority
Previous STATUS
Previous date for living abroad/Previous code for living abroad
Previous date for being placed under a legal disability
Previous PNR of spouse
Code for municipality from which the person has moved
Date for municipality from which the person has moved
Date for municipality to which the person has moved
Date for citizenship
Disappearance date
Number of buildings
Previous code for marital status
Previous code for paternity
Derived indication for derived person
Previous date for citizenship
Previous or previous double PNR
Date for paternity
Code for arrival in Denmark


Name of Events Code
Departure
Erasing of personal registration number
Change of personal registration number
Death/widowhood/the surviving partner
Divorce/annulled partnership
Marriage
Registered partnership
Cancellation of present citizenship
Change in right of citizenship
Update personal information
Change of address
Correction of present marital status
Correction of present address
Correction of present marital status
Adoption
Paternity
Birth
Arrival in Denmark
Retrieval of person
Re-entering of person in Denmark
Update information on relatives
Cancellation of present marital status
Cancellation of present address
Cancellation of personal registration number
Placed under a legal disability
Naming

5.3 Documentation
See the publication called Movement of the population (vital statistics).

5.4 Other Information
A detailed description is available in the publication called The movement of the population (Vital Statistics)


Supplementary documentation
No supplementary documentation is available