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: News from Statistics Denmark.

Publications

The statistics are published in the publication Kriminalitet (Criminality)

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subjects in the following tables:

• STRAFFO1: Birth cohorts (per 31. December 2022) by unit, year of birth, sex, age by first conviction, offence and time
• STRAFFO2: Birth cohorts (per 31. December 2022) by unit, year of birth, sex, age by first custodial sentences, custodial sentences and time
• STRAFFO3: Convictions (per 31. December 2022 by birth cohort by unit, year of birth, sex, age at time of conviction, offence and time
• STRAFFO4: Imprisonments (per 31. December 2022) by unit, year of birth, sex, custodial sentences, age at time of conviction and time

Micro-data access

Data on birth cohort crime are kept as ready-made files containing basic information at individual level. Taylormade statistics can be prepared on bases of the ready-made files. Through Statistics Denmark's Division of Research Service it is possible for researchers to be granted access to anonymised data, i.e., data for which all identification details such as ID numbers have been removed.

Other

Final data are available to DST Consulting, The Division of Research Services and other users in Statistics Denmark.

Confidentiality - policy

Data Confidentiality Policy in Statistics Denmark.

Confidentiality - data treatment

The published statistics on Birth Cohort Crime is distributed by no other characteristics than year of birth, sex and age. This ensures that convicted persons not can be related to individuals.

Documentation on methodology

There is no special documents of methods to this 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.