Relatives
How many people in Danmark have relatives? How many have no relatives? The statistics on relatives can be disaggregated, for example, by number of people with and without relatives, by the type of relatives, and by distance to relatives.
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A relative is a partner, half or full sibling, parent, grandparent, child, child-in-law or grandchild of another person in the population. Partners and children-in-law are identified using information such as shared address. The other relative relations are identified solely using parent-child linkages in the Danish Civil Registration System (CPR).
Selected statistics on Relatives
The population's relatives distributed by age
The primary source of the statistics is the Civil Registration System (CPR). The continuous updating of the Civil Registration System is thus the basis of the population statistics. The updating takes place in the individual municipalities as the municipal population changes because of births and deaths, migrations in and out of the municipality and changes in marital status for the citizens of the municipality. The Civil Registration System is a central system with a common database where all registrations are updated. The state makes the system available to the individual municipalities. The Danish Health Data Authority’s Birth Register and Cause of Death Register are the secondary sources providing data on births and deaths respectively.
People without relatives
The primary source of the statistics is the Civil Registration System (CPR). The continuous updating of the Civil Registration System is thus the basis of the population statistics. The updating takes place in the individual municipalities as the municipal population changes because of births and deaths, migrations in and out of the municipality and changes in marital status for the citizens of the municipality. The Civil Registration System is a central system with a common database where all registrations are updated. The state makes the system available to the individual municipalities. The Danish Health Data Authority’s Birth Register and Cause of Death Register are the secondary sources providing data on births and deaths respectively.
Distance to grandparents
The primary source of the statistics is the Civil Registration System (CPR). The continuous updating of the Civil Registration System is thus the basis of the population statistics. The updating takes place in the individual municipalities as the municipal population changes because of births and deaths, migrations in and out of the municipality and changes in marital status for the citizens of the municipality. The Civil Registration System is a central system with a common database where all registrations are updated. The state makes the system available to the individual municipalities. The Danish Health Data Authority’s Birth Register and Cause of Death Register are the secondary sources providing data on births and deaths respectively.
Consultations with physicians
The primary source is LUNA, which is the IT system used by the regions to process reimbursements for health insurance services. Additionally, there are supplementary sources regarding services from the tariff folders.
Internal Statistics Denmark-sources:
- The register of population statistics (ancestry)
- The register of income statistics (level of income) for the previous year
- 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 (resident parents, relatives, partner)
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
These statistics focus on the consumption of health care services within the primary public health care sector . The statistics are based on annual extracts from LUNA, which is the IT system used by the regions to settle accounts for health services with the individual providers (e.g., physicians, dentists, etc.). The statistics have been compiled since 1986 but are comparable from 2006 onwards.
The purpose of the population statistics is to focus on the size, composition and development of the population living in Denmark. The statistics create a basis for a number of analyses on demography and society and are used as a basis for planning tasks on a national, regional and municipal level. In their basic form, the statistics have been compiled since 1769 but have undergone a series of changes as society developed and legislation followed. Most of the present table series in Statbank Denmark comprise data from 2007 and forward, while a few of these go back further.