Comparability
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Personal Finances and Welfare, Social StatisticsThe 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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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.
Comparability - geographical
As to the knowledge of Statistics Denmark, no similar international statistics exist.
Comparability over time
Not relevant to this statistics as only one year is published.
Coherence - cross domain
The total population on 1st of January are shown in the StatBank table BEFOLK1. The population in the statistics "Distance to general practitioner" excludes Christiansø and persons living on invalid home addresses. Therefor the two popultations are not comparable. In the statistics at hand general practitioners are identified by specialty and type of service to exclude out of office services from the measure. The share of population seeing a general practitioner might vary from that published in the StatBank on Visits to physicians where such distinctions are not made.
In shedding light on accessibility to general practitioners across municipality boarders, it might also be relevant to include information from Coverage of general practitioners
Coherence - internal
There's internal consistency with exception of the selections described in chapter Statistical processing.