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Land Accounts

Statistics on the size of Denmark, land by land cover and land use by industry are published in the StatBank under Area and Natural ressources. Furthermore, Land accounts is part of the Environ­mental-Economic Accounts (Green National Accounts).

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

Land by land cover and land use by industry are published in two separate Danish press releases.

Publications

The Land Accounts are included in publication on Green national accounts, accessible through dst.dk/groentnr

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank in the following tables:

  • AREALDK: Land by land cover, region and unit
  • AREALAN1: Land use by industry group, region and unit
  • ARE207: Area 1. January by region

Micro-data access

Micro-data can be made available to researchers through Statistics Denmark's researcher service (relevant only for the land use accounts).

Other

The source map of land cover (BASEMAP04) is available through the website of DCE.

Confidentiality - policy

Statistics Denmarks general policy on data confidentiality (in Danish only).

Confidentiality - data treatment

No measures have been necessary, as the statistics are created from source data which are publicly available.

Documentation on methodology

The land cover account has been produced with technical and expert support from DCE, Århus University. Their work is documented in Levin, G. (2022): Basemap04 - Documentation of the data and method for the elaboration of a land-use and land-cover map for Denmark. Aarhus University, DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, 80 pp. Technical Report No. 252..

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.