Statistical processing
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Source data comes from the Danish Health Data Agency, which once a month calculates all sales of human and veterinary medicines in Denmark, after they have validated and quality checked the data.
The sales are compiled on an annual basis and linked with selected personal information from Statistics Denmark’s registers, including users’ gender, age, geography, and education.
Source data
External sources: The Register of Pharmaceutical Sales, the Danish Health Data Agency.
Internal sources in Statistics Denmark:
- The register of population statistics (ancestry, date of birth and sex)
- The Employment Classification Module (SOCIO13) as of December 31st of the previous year
- Education (BUE): Highest completed level of education as of 30 September of the previous year
- The Relatives Register (relatives, partner)
Frequency of data collection
The pharmacies reports the information to the Danish Health Data Agency every month. Statistics Denmark receives data twice annually.
Data collection
The pharmacies reports electronically to the Danish Health Data Agency’s FTP-server through Medicinnettet.
Data validation
The Danish Health Data Agency validates and quality checks the reported data from the pharmacies.
Totals and subtotals in statbank are, where possible, compared with numbers from medstat, the Danish Health Data Authority’s public portal for pharmaceutical statistics.
Data compilation
Purchases are compiled on an annual basis, and the population is delimited to persons with a valid CPR number. Medicines are grouped by type of medication and linked with information on age, sex, place of residence, labour market attachment, relationships, and education
Adjustment
Not relevant to this statistic