Statistical processing
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Personal Finances and Welfare, Social StatisticsIben Birgitte Pedersen
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The source of the statistics is the Administrative System of the National Police. Data are delivered annually via email with a zip file containing 52 Excel files. The data go through a probability check in form of a comparison with data from the previous year, key variables are checked for valid values and irrelevant registration cases are deleted.
Source data
Administrative System of the National Police.
Frequency of data collection
Annual.
Data collection
The source of the statistics is the Administrative System of the National Police. Data are delivered annually via email with a zip file containing 52 Excel files.
Data validation
The data go through a probability check in form of a comparison with data from the previous year. Explanations of possible big deflections in the distribution of key variables are looked for, possible by contacting the National Police
Data compilation
Key variables are checked for valid values. Irrelevant registrations are deleted, e.g. offences committed at Greenland or the Faroe Islands. The code numbers of the reported criminal offences are converted to a Statistics Denmark-code, which is hierarchically constructed
Adjustment
No further corrections of data than mentioned in "Data validation" and "Data compilation" are done.