Statistical processing

Source data

The environmental accounts are based on: The air emissions accounts are based on technical information on emissions and emission inventories obtained from the DCE, Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, University of Aarhus. Statistics on environmentally related taxes etc. are based on information from statistics on the government finances. The break down by industries and households is based on information obtained from the national accounts. Information from the government finances. The break down by industries and household is based on information obtained from the national accounts.

The Economy-wide Material Flow accounts are based on:

• Information concerning weights of materials is obtained from the external trade statistics and, the energy account
• as well as statistics on quarrying and agricultural statistics on agriculture.
• Data regarding weights of fish landings are obtained from the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Frequency of data collection

Annually.

Data collection

Data is collected from different internal and external sources by extracting information from data bases, excel spreadsheets and printed publications.

Data validation

First there is a process of data validation of each primary statistics, as described in the respective quality statements of the relevant statistics. It is followed by an initial validation of input data in connection to compilation of Environmental Accounts.

Data compilation

This has been described together with the data validation part.

Adjustment

Not relevant for these statistics.