Distance to general practitioner (experimental statistics)

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Personal Finances and Welfare, Social Statistics
The administrative placement of these statistics is in the division of Welfare and Health Statistics. The contact person is Camilla Østerballe Nielsen, tel,: +45 20 28 52 49 and e-mail: cnl@dst.dk.

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Distance to general practitioner (experimental statistics) 2024

The purpose of the statistics "Distance to general practitioner" is to shed light on possible connections between distance to general practitioners and use, or lack of use, of general practitioners.

Statistical presentation

The statistics distance to closest general practitioner, is a measure of the average distance between a persons home address and the nearest general practitioner. The statistics further measure the use of general practitioner according to hove far away a person lives from the general practitioner. The statistics is divided into the population that sees the general practitioner at least once during the measurement year and the population that does not see the doctor during the measurement year. The statistic is further divided into 10 year age groups, gender and municipality groups.

Statistical processing

The data for these statistics stems from a number of different internal and external data sources. From the National Health Data Authority the National Catalogue of Health Organisations (SOR) is collected. From the register of health services the use of general practitioners is included. Further information on inhabited addresses are included from the statistics on Urban areas. Finally the register of population statistics is used to link persons with inhabited addresses.

Relevance

The statistics can be relevant to the general public and authorities wanting to compare accessibility to general practitioners across municipalities, age groups and gender.

Accuracy and reliability

The data for these statistics stems from administrative data and have a high coverage. With regards to SOR one has to make reservations. Further it is noted the it is up to the individual general practitioner to register in SOR, and there might not be a validation on the addresses being typed correctly leading to potential inaccuracy.

Timeliness and punctuality

These statistics are published in February 2026 and are not expected to be published again.

Comparability

Statistics Denmark are not aware of comparable, publicly available, statistics nationally or internationally. These statistics are only published for one year, and is not comparable in time.

Accessibility and clarity

The statistics can be found in the StatBank under the Consultations with physicians. It has been made sure there's at least 3 observation per cell.