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Accuracy and reliability

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Population and Education, Social statistics
Jørn Korsbø Petersen
+45 3917 3277

jkp@dst.dk

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Urban Areas

The overall quality of the statistics is good, but the definition gives possibilities for discretion.

Overall accuracy

The overall quality of the statistics is good. In very few cases (0,1 percent) is it not possible to place a person in a urban or rural district.

Sampling error

No

Non-sampling error

In very few cases (0,1 percent) is it not possible to place a person in a urban or rural district.

Quality management

Statistics Denmark follows the recommendations on organisation and management of quality given in the Code of Practice for European Statistics (CoP) and the implementation guidelines given in the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (QAF). A Working Group on Quality and a central quality assurance function have been established to continuously carry through control of products and processes.

Quality assurance

Statistics Denmark follows the principles in the Code of Practice for European Statistics (CoP) and uses the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (QAF) for the implementation of the principles. This involves continuous decentralized and central control of products and processes based on documentation following international standards. The central quality assurance function reports to the Working Group on Quality. Reports include suggestions for improvement that are assessed, decided and subsequently implemented.

Quality assessment

The overall quality of the statistics is good.

Data revision - policy

Statistics Denmark revises published figures in accordance with the Revision Policy for Statistics Denmark. The common procedures and principles of the Revision Policy are for some statistics supplemented by a specific revision practice.

Data revision practice

There are no provisional figures.