Statistical presentation
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Population and Education, Social StatisticsAnnemarie Schriver
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The statistics is an annual inventory for the 3. of October of the number of children and the number of families receiving subsidies for private day-care or for care of their own children after the Day Care Act, Dagtilbudsloven (§ 80 and § 86). The statistics are grouped by municipalities.
Data description
The statistics highlight private day-care and care of one's own child with municipal subsidy according to the Day Care Act (§ 80 and § 86) in the individual municipality based on information on the number of children and the number of families. The statistics are calculated each year on 3 October for the current year.
Classification system
The statistics are distributed by municipality and grouped by type of grant and number of families and children.
Sector coverage
Child care sector
Statistical concepts and definitions
§ 80 in the day-care act: Description only available in Danish.
§ 86 in the day-care act: Description only available in Danish.
Statistical unit
Children and families.
Statistical population
Recipients of subsidy for private day-care (§80 in Dagtilbudsloven) or day-care for own children (§86 in Dagtilbudsloven). Parent taking care of their children without subsidy from the municipality is not part of this statistics.
Reference area
Denmark with the exception of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Time coverage
The statistics cover the time span from 2008 and until to today.
Base period
Not relevant for these statistics.
Unit of measure
The statistical unit is numbers of families or children.
Reference period
The reference date is October 3 of the current year.
Frequency of dissemination
The statistics is published yearly.
Legal acts and other agreements
The Act on Statistics Denmark (Lov om Danmarks Statistik), Sections 6 and 8.
Cost and burden
Automatic reporting of the electronic registrations comes from the municipalities' administrative systems. Therefore the response burden to the municipalities are minimal.
A few municipalities report the data manually.
Comment
Additional information about the statistics can be found here: emneside.