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The quarterly national accounts statistics are published in the StatBank under Economy and National accounts. The publications are accompanied by Danish press releases - in Danish.
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
The statistics are published, in Danish, in News from Statistics Denmark, accompanied by posts on social media.
Publications
The quarterly national accounts are not published in any publications.
On-line database
The quarterly national accounts are published in a numbers of tables in the Statbank under Economics.
Micro-data access
More detailed data are available at a charge. It is possible to buy data from the approximately 2,350 product balances at current prices, prices of the previous year and at constant prices, typically in the form of, e.g. a single product balance or the product composition of a given consumption group. Information on gross fixed capital formation is also sold in its most detailed form, i.e. as information on the product composition of a given industry. Please contact the office for National Accounts if you wish to hear more about the possibilities for tailored national accounts data.
Other
The national accounts provide table sets to Eurostat, so that Denmark's national accounts figures are included in the Eurostat database. The figures are provided via Eurostat to the OECD database.
A database of quarterly national accounts figures is also provided to ADAM (the macroeconomic model in Statistics Denmark), the Ministry of Finance, the Central bank of Denmark (Danmarks Nationalbank), the Danish Trade Union Confederation and the Confederation of Danish Industry.
Other external users can access ADAM's database for a fee.
Confidentiality - policy
Data Confidentiality Policy for Statistics Denmark - in Danish.
Confidentiality - data treatment
The primary statistics included in the national accounts each meet a level of discretion where individuals and companies cannot be identified. This means that further discretion is not required at the level that the national accounts are published at.
Documentation on methodology
Method description for national accounts can be found on the subject page for National accounts. In addition, reference is made to the following:
- Quarterly National Accounts - Method Documentation.
- Annual National Accounts - Method Documentation (GNI Documentation 2016).
- Annual National Accounts - Method Documentation (GNI Documentation 2021.
- Revisions of the quarterly national accounts (Danish).
- New indicator for vehicle procurement (Danish).
- Fixed price calculations - sources and methods (Danish).
- Chained values. Calculation of growth contributions and aggregated series (Danish).
- Need for better investment estimates (Danish).
En introduktion til nationalregnskabet findes i lærebogsform: Morten Andreas Hjulsager: "Nationalregnskabet", 6. udgave. Serien Økonomi og samfund, DJØF Forlag, 2022.
Francois Lequiller & Derek Blades: ”Understanding National Accounts”, OECD, 2014.
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.