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

These statistics are published yearly in a Danish press release.

Publications

Not relevant for these statistics.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Drug abuse treatment in the following tables:

• SMDBV001: Drug abuse treatment by region, activity and time
• SMDBV002: Drug abuse treatment by region, key figures and time
• SMDBV006: Drug abuse treatment by key figures, sex, age and time
• SMDBV004: Drug abuse treatment by region, guaranteed waiting time and time
• SMDBV005: Drug abuse treatment by region, status and time

In 2026, table SMDBV003 was discontinued and SMDBV006 was created. SMDBV006 continues the data previously presented in SMDBV003; the only change is that the years 2015–2020 are no longer included.

Micro-data access

Researchers and other analysts from authorized research institutions, can be granted access to the underlying micro-data by contacting Denmark's Data Portal.

Other

SMDB supplies data to three registers:

• VBGS: "Waiting times regarding treatment guarantee for drug addicts", which is owned by the The Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing. The VBGS register includes an municipality part (Waiting times regarding treatment guarantee for drug addicts) and before January 1, 2025 an treatment treatment center part (admissions). Before 1 July 2019, the treatment center part was an independent register called the Danish Registration and Information System (DanRis) at the Center for Alcohol and Drug Research. The municipality part of the VBGS register builds the data foundation for these statistics.

• SIB: ”Substance addicts in treatment”, which is owned by the The Danish Health Data Authority.

• KVALHEP: "Quality in medical treatment and Hepatitis C", which is owned by the Danish Health Authority. Please note that the schema KVALHEP will be omitted by July 1, 2025.

Confidentiality - policy

Data Confidentiality Policy at Statistics Denmark.

Confidentiality - data treatment

The statistics have been subject to disclosure control using Tau-Argus, with a disclosure threshold of 3 observations. Tau-Argus does not only suppress cells containing fewer than 3 observations, but also cells from which these values can be indirectly derived. This is referred to as secondary suppression. For the years 2015–2020, during which some municipalities did not approve the numbers, secondary suppression was implemented by suppressing the regional and national totals.

Documentation on methodology

The current statistics are prepared based on the Code of Practice, which together constitutes a code of conduct for statistical production. The statistics are based on the associated Quality Assurance Framework (QAF), particularly focusing on principles of quality assurance, well-founded methods, data confidentiality, and impartiality. The content of the Code of Practice and QAF can be found on Quality in Official Statistics. Additionally, information about the creation of the statistics can be found on the information page, and the SMDB team can always be contacted for further clarification on methodology via smdb@dst.dk.

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.