Statistical processing
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Population and Education, Social StatisticsIben Birgitte Pedersen
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The source of the statistics is The Central Register of Reported Criminal Offences - administered by the National Commissioner of the Danish Police. Data are delivered quarterly via System-to-system-transmission. The data go through a probability check in form of a comparison with data from the previous year, key variables are checked for valid values and irrelevant offences are deleted.
Key series are seasonal adjusted. Seasonal adjustments are made for sexual offenses, crimes of violence, offence against property and other offences, as well as selected subcategories where there may be registered seasonal variations. Be aware that the effect of COVID-19 has made data more uncertain than usual.
Source data
The Central Register of Reported Criminal Offences - administered by the National Commissioner of the Danish Police.
Frequency of data collection
Quarterly
Data collection
System-to-system transmission
Data validation
The data go through a probability check in form of a comparison with data from the previous year. Explanations of possible big deflections in the distribution of key variables are looked for, possible by contacting the National Police.
Data compilation
Key variables are checked for valid values. Irrelevant offences are deleted, e.g. offences committed at Greenland or the Faroe Islands. The code numbers of the reported criminal offences are converted to a to a Statistics Denmark-code, which is hierarchically constructed.
Adjustment
No further corrections of data than mentioned in "Data validation" and "Data compilation" are done.