Full register extraction for public institutions
Public institutions can order full register extraction for their projects – meaning all observations in the register – if they need it. This is a result of Research Services wanting to give projects enhanced capabilities for running several iterations of populations, continuously quality assuring analyses and being more exploratory in data analyses.
This enables the projects to:
- create populations
- create controls for populations created in Research Services
- create sub-populations of basic data for enrichment of external populations
In the project proposal, the population must be described shortly and precisely (without involving technical details), and it must be documented who creates the population. We are happy to give you advice on which registers that could be necessary to order.
- ’The population consists of all senior-class pupils who left school between 2010 and 2020. We want to create the population ourselves.’
- ’The population consists of patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS) who have received hip arthroscopic treatment. Ten matching controls are created per case. We want to create the population ourselves.’
- ’The population consists of all economically active persons in Denmark. We want to create the population ourselves.’
- ’The population consists of pupils in primary and lower secondary school who have participated in our user satisfaction survey on public schools in Denmark. We want to create control populations ourselves and thus want a full population.’
- ‘The population consists of all retail businesses in Region Zealand. Statistics Denmark creates the population. We want to create control populations ourselves and thus want a full population.’
- ’The population consists of all general medical practitioners and the rest of the population as control population. We want to create the population ourselves.’
Populations for external data providers
External data providers, such as the Danish Health Data Authority, may require a delimitation of the population. For example, this applies for access to the Danish pharmaceutical products database (LMDB). In these cases, you can still create the population yourselves, which Statistics Denmark will then forward to the Danish Health Data Authority or use for data extraction.
If Research Services creates the population
If you do not have the resources to create populations or control populations, Research Services can carry out this type of assignment. This is done on the basis of a framework agreement.
Read more about this process under Population description
Note: The facilitated access to full register extraction is a pilot project running throughout 2025.