Statistical presentation

Data description

The statistics are broken down by economic activity, size, region and sector, which makes it possible to analyse the demand for labour by industry, workplace size, region and sector. The number of job vacancies and the job vacancy rate are compiled at industry, regional and sector level.

Classification system

In national publications, standard groupings of DB25 with either 10 or 20 industry groups are used. The industry groups are indicated by letters followed by a general explanatory text.

The Job Vacancy Statistics are not published for industry group A: Agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing.

A comprehensive description of the groupings can be found in Dansk Branchekode 2025 (DB25) .

A complete description of the industrial classification is available in the publication Dansk Branchekode 2025 (Danish Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities 2025).

Sector coverage

The statistics are broken down by sector according to the sector classification of the workplaces in the Statistical Business Register (SBR).

Statistical concepts and definitions

Job Vacancy Rate: The job vacancy rate measures the percentage of job vacancies in relation to the total sum of job vacancies and occupied posts.

Local Unit: A local unit is defined as an organizational defined part of a company that is located at a given address and produces one or predominantly one kind of goods and services.

Occupied Posts: The number of employees is defined as all persons who at the reference day receive pay from the workplace concerned irrespective of the number of hours worked.

Job Vacancies: A job vacancy is defined as a paid post which at the reference day is newly created, unoccupied or soon to be vacated, and for which the employer is taking active steps to and is prepared to take further steps to fill with a suitable candidate outside the business concerned, and which the employer intend to fill either immediately or within a specified period of time.

Statistical unit

The statistical units are local units. They are defined as workplaces with at least one employee. In Statistics Denmark's Statistical Business Register (SBR) the workplaces are identified by their workplace number.

Units without a fixed workplace, called fictitious units: The population also includes units without a fixed workplace. These are units to which employees without a physical workplace are assigned. Examples include traveling salesmen, sailors and bicycle messengers. Fictitious units exist only for the private sector.

Statistical population

From 2026 onwards, the population comprises all workplaces, except industry group A, with at least one employee.

Before 2026, the population consisted of workplaces belonging to industry groups B to O (DB25) with at least one employee.

For the private sector, the population also includes units without a fixed workplace. These are units to which employees without a physical workplace are assigned, e.g. traveling salesmen, sailors and bicycle messengers.

Reference area

The statistics cover job vacancies in the Danish labour market.

Time coverage

The Job Vacancy Statistics have been produced since 1st quarter 2010.

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

Data is shown as number of job vacancies and as a job vacancy rate.

Reference period

Statistics are compiled quarterly. Survey data are collected monthly. Monthly extracts of register data from https://jobnet.dk/ are received via the Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment (STAR) quarterly and are supplemented by register data from Copenhagen Municipality.

Both the sample from survey data (data from the private sector) and the register data (data from the public sector) are divided into three groups: 1. The 1st group reports data concerning the 1st month of the quarter. 2. The 2nd group reports data concerning the 2nd month of the quarter. 3. The 3rd group reports data for the 3rd month of the quarter.

For the survey part, the variation among the workplaces in each individual stratum is equally distributed, and each individual workplace is only selected once in the quarter in the survey data.

For register data, all workplaces in the public sector are included each month. Each job advertisement has a date for when the job advertisement was posted on https://jobnet.dk/, and either when the job advertisement was removed from the job portal or the expected application deadline. It is therefore possible to extract the number of advertised job vacancies for all days of the year. To create comparability with the survey-based part of the statistics, the same counting dates are used. The purpose of using three counting dates across the quarter is to cover job vacancies throughout the quarter and avoid fluctuations due to, among other things, holiday periods.

Frequency of dissemination

Quarterly.

Legal acts and other agreements

The collection of register data from the Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment (STAR) and Copenhagen Municipality, respectively, is carried out with legal authority in section 28(2)(3) of the Danish Public Administration Act, since the data are of significant importance for Statistics Denmark's work, as, according to Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (in particular Article 2(1)(f)), Statistics Denmark must limit the respondent burden to a minimum and, as far as possible, extract data from available registers or sources. This is related to the fact that Statistics Denmark is obliged to extend the industry coverage to industries dominated by public workplaces (P-TUV) according to Regulation (EU) 2025/941 of the European Parliament and the Council of 7 May 2025 on European Union labour market statistics on business.

Cost and burden

The response burden for these statistics has been calculated as a total annual time consumption in business of approximately 2,900 hours, corresponding to 2.2 full-time equivalents of 1,300 hours.

Comment

Further information can be found on the subject page for Job vacancies or by contacting Statistics Denmark Job vacancies.