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Labour and Income, Social Statistics.Torben Lundsvig
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The maternity and paternity leave part of the statistic is used by ministries for reasons of gender equality policy and of the unions and the employers' organizations in connection with collective bargaining agreements. The statistics are included as an important data element concerning analyzes of the productivity of the Danish workforce (economic model calculations), the labor market accounts, the statistics statistics on Public dependents and the absence statistics
User Needs
The statistics are used for planning, research and political discussions for example the split of parental leave into the fathers leave and the mothers leave from an equality point of view. To meet user requests, it is calculated 1. Maternity leave per. parent couple per. children at regional level. 2. Maternity leave per. parent couple per. children at municipality level. 3. Maternity leave per. individual father or mother by industry.
Statistics are still under development and there are plans for tables illustrating public expenditure and there is demand for figures showing how many take 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . 50, 51, 52 weeks of maternity leave. For example, in the form of a graph. In August 2022, an EU directive extending men's earmarked maternity leave from two to 11 weeks will become part of maternity law. At the same time, women's earmarked maternity leave will be reduced from 14 to 11 weeks. Men's earmarked maternity leave cannot be transferred to women and vice versa. Tables showing maternity leave broken down by the legal basis for the payment of daily allowances will therefore be needed.
User Satisfaction
Due to a change of data provider, the statistics have not been published in the period 2017-2019, which has been regrettable for many users, because the statistics are used in the political debate and in collective bargaining, as well as in the public debate. The statistics were published in a beta version in March 2020. October 2020 the statistics were published again after a quality assurance in spring 2020, but still in a beta version. For publication in April 2021 and May 2021, small adjustments have continued to be made, but overall the quality is being improved, along with two new and much requested tables on maternity by industry.
Data completeness rate
Not relevant for these statistics.