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Bosnia-Herzegovina 2021-2023

Statistics Denmark is implementing an EU-financed Twinning project in Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the national statistical institutions of Finland, Sweden and Italy. The project runs from March 2021 to March 2023., The beneficiary institutions are:, Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Institute for Statistics of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Institute for Statistics of Republika Srpska, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indirect Taxation Authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina., The overall objective of the project is to increase the volume of statistical data in/for BiH and further increase the compliance with EU Acquis, with the specific objective to strengthen the statistical system institutional capacities and to further harmonise statistics in BiH with EU standards by improving business statistics, balance of payments, agriculture and labour market statistics and to improve reporting/statistics on collected indirect taxes., In general, the project addresses six independent components:, Component 1 - Business Statistics, with four subcomponents, Component 2 - Agricultural Statistics, Component 3 - Administrative Data Sources , Component 4 - Labour Market Statistics, Component 5 - Balance of Payment Statistics – Central Bank, Component 6 - Macroeconomic Analysis Unit of the Governing Board of the Indirect Taxation Authority, You can read more about the project on Facebook: EU Twinning - Further Support to the Reform of Statistics System in BiH

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/projects/bosnia-herzegovina2021-2023

Annual Report 2024

Explore our portfolio of international projects for 2024, 26 March 2025 8:00 , By , Klaus Munch Haagensen, Our Annual Report 2024 takes stock of the activities and outcomes of all our international projects in International Consulting throughout the year., In 2024, the second phase of our Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) projects in Ghana and Morocco progressed further, while the SSC project in Vietnam concluded its first phase and prepared for Phase II in 2025. These projects are financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., Our EU-funded projects remained active in Jordan, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and the Pan-African Statistics project (PAS II). Meanwhile, our project in the Turkish Cypriot Community, also funded by the EU, concluded in mid-2024. Detailed descriptions of all individual projects are available in the annual report., Beyond a summary of our major project achievements, the report features a special article on the importance of statistics in a development context. Statistics play a vital role in evidence-based decision-making, ensuring effective resource allocation, and promoting transparency and accountability. From tracking social progress to empowering citizens, statistical data is essential for shaping policies that drive real-world change., As part of the Framework Program for Phase II of the SSC, Statistics Denmark has launched a new initiative to support other Danish authorities in their development efforts through data and statistics. This initiative, called “SIAM”, is funded through the SSC program by the Danish MFA, with a budget of 4 million DKK for 2024-2027. More details on this initiative can be found in the annual report., We extend our sincere gratitude to our partner statistical bureaus, embassies, NGOs, and other stakeholders who contributed to our projects in 2024. A special thank you to the EU and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their continued financial support., Read the full report here, , available in both web and printable versions.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2025/26-03-2025-Annual-report-2024

Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels

Pushing statistical production based on administrative data – on all levels., 22 August 2023 12:00 , , At the same time as Danish experts in Vietnam together with the General Statistical Office (GSO) worked on creating statistical indicators based on administrative micro data, an international conference on “Data ecosystem management, data governance, and data stewardship” took place. Participants were Vietnamese ministries, international institutions, representatives from the private sector and national statistical offices., The full day conference displayed experiences of data integration and cooperation between authorities for the production of high quality official statistics through presentations and discussions. Presentations were held by the national statistical offices of Denmark, Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Likewise the international organizations ESCAP and UNFPA contributed with presentations., The conference ended in a lively discussion between the Vietnamese public institutions and the international participants. The conference is considered a valuable leverage to Statistics Denmark’s ongoing efforts to support the modernization and digitalization of the production of official statistics in Vietnam through the Strategic Sector Cooperation program financed by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs., You can read more about the SSC-project in Vietnam here.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2023/22-08-2023-Pushing-statistical-production-based-on-administrative-data

Data science team from Ghana wins UN Datathon 2023

Data Science Team from Ghana got 1st Place overall and also the prizes for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa., 22 January 2024 11:00 , , Competing against over 400 teams from all over the world, the GSS team got 1, st, Place overall and also the prize for Best Youth Team, Best Visualization and Best Team from Sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges at the Datathon was to create “an innovative data solution which tackles local sustainable development challenges”. The solution should accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals using open source data sets and have a geospatial element., The Data Science Team produced an interactive tool which provide decision-makers with information about school enrollment, access to electricity and access to information on a local level based on night light data sources and data from the 2021 Population and Housing Census. The Data Science Team of the GSS was formed in 2022 to strengthen the use of Data Science and ICT at the Ghana Statistical Services. During 2022 and 2023, Statistics Denmark has worked closely with the team building skills in R and showcasing how administrative data can be turned into official statistics., Together with Statistics Denmark the Data Science Team created the , Statsbank Ghana, , forming the base of the Population and Housing Census Atlas., We have made a small video presenting the Data Science Team and it’s work. , Video on the Data Science Team - 3:30 minutes, , Read more about the Datathon and the winners on the official UN Datathon website here., The Datathon was supported by the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics. , You can find the UN-homepage with datathon essentials here.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2024/22-01-2024-data-science-team-from-ghana-wins-un-datathon-2023

Quality policy

Statistics Denmark is a professionally and politically independent institution developing, producing and publishing statistics on society. Statistics Denmark produces impartial and objective statistics in accordance with recognised methods and statistical procedures. Furthermore, Statistics Denmark ensures statistical confidentiality. Our goal is for the statistics to be accurate and reliable, coherent and comparable., Statistics Denmark defines the statistics on the basis of users’ needs, publish them timely and punctually and aim to present them in a clear and understandable way. To this end, Statistics Denmark’s professional independence is specified by law, cf. Act on Statistics Denmark, and it is ensured that the staff has adequate education, training and experience to accommodate the current statistical requirements., Statistics Denmark produces and disseminates official statistics and ensures coherence within and between the statistics, including comparability over time and geographical areas. To the widest extent possible, existing administrative sources are used to minimise the reporting burden on enterprises and citizens., Statistics Denmark emphasises good service, efficiency and cost-effectiveness to fulfil the increasing national and international requests. Statistics Denmark participates in the international cooperation and meets the requirements to the European statistical system., Statistics Denmark is working according to well-defined methods and plans. Quality indicators and other important factors concerning processes and products are well-defined, and outputs are monitored in accordance with these. If the quality indicators are not satisfactory, changes and improvements of processes and procedures will be implemented., Statistics Denmark’s quality system is based on the 16 principles in the European statistics Code of Practice, as published by Eurostat:, Professional independence, 1bis Coordination and cooperation, Mandate for data collection and access to data, Adequacy of resources, Commitment to quality, Statistical confidentiality and data protection, Impartiality and objectivity, Sound Methodology, Appropriate statistical procedures, Non-excessive burden on respondents, Cost-effectiveness, Relevance, Accuracy and reliability, Timeliness and punctuality, Coherence and comparability, Accessibility and clarity

https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/strategi-og-kvalitet/kvalitet-for-statistikproduktion/kvalitetspolitik

Earnings via IDEP

New reporting solution for Earnings, Start IDEP, Reporting to Earnings via IDEP - (PDF), Access to upload of data is protected by privileges, To report to Earnings via IDEP, you must log in with a NemID employee signature. The person who is authorized to report for the company must be assigned a privilege to report to Earnings (Lønstatistik). Only persons who have the privilege will be able to access the statistic in IDEP. It is only possible to see the files which you yourself have uploaded and not the files which a colleague has uploaded., Third-party reporting via IDEP, If you are reporting on behalf of other companies (3rd party declaration), you will also need to be assigned privileges to report to Earnings (Lønstatistik) via Virk.dk by the company where you are employed. , Note:, Only the person who uploads the data will have accress to this data., For more information about granting/receiving privileges, see the following guides:, Request rights to report to Earnings (Lønstatistik) – (PDF)., Grant rights to report to Earnings (Lønstatistik) – (PDF), ., If you have questions about:, Virk rights, please contact Virk-support: (+45) 72 20 00 30, Reporting via IDEP: , Contact IDEP-support., Reporting to Earnings: , Contact the statistical office

https://www.dst.dk/en/Indberet/vejledning-til-digital-indberetning/indberetning-via-idep/loenstatistik

Supervisory Board

Statistics Denmark is managed by a supervisory board with the Director General in the chair, and it includes seven other members. The supervisory board establishes its own rules of procedure and appoints one of its members as vice-chair. By law, the supervisory board chaired by the Director General is responsible for the following:, The overall strategy and financial management of Statistics Denmark, while the Director General has the sole responsibility for defining the professional criteria for development, collection, compilation and dissemination of Statistics Denmark’s statistical output., The professional independence of the official statistics and of the institution of Statistics Denmark., Consideration and decisions in matters of interest to the strategic management of the institution, including work programme, statistical programme and budget. Decisions as to the extent and ways of collecting data from the business community, including for the purpose of implementing EU and national legislation. In this way, the supervisory board is responsible for the reporting task imposed by Statistics Denmark on the business community., Via the work programme and statistical programme, decisions about the data that public authorities and institutions must submit to Statistics Denmark., Members of the Board, Martin Ulrik Jensen (chair), Director General, David Dreyer Lassen (vice-chair), Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Ida Sofie Jensen, Group Executive Director of the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Mads Bryde Andersen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Rikke Hougaard Zeberg, Director General, Agency for Climate Data, Anne Lawaetz Arhnung, Former CEO, Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Lars Andersen, Director of the Economic Council of the Labour Movement, Signe Krogstrup, Member of the Board of Governors, Danmarks Nationalbank

https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/organisation/bestyrelsen

Strategies

Statistical programme 2025, The statistical programme provides a short description of the statistics we produce. Each description offers information about the purpose and content of the statistics as well as any development activities in 2025., , Strategy 2025, The strategy charts the course for Statistics Denmark’s development towards 2025 and sets the main priorities for our work., Statistics Denmark is the national supplier of independent statistics and data to society. The vision of our activities in the years ahead is to be the preferred source of reliable knowledge on Danish society., , Communication strategy 2025, Communication strategy 2025 describes Statistics Denmark’s strategic goals for the development of our external communication towards 2025 and is one of the means to realise , Strategy 2025, ., As a part of Strategy 2025, Statistics Denmark shall be the preferred source of reliable information on society in times where citizens need to navigate through an immense and potentially misleading flow of facts and figures and where it is hard to know for sure whether statistics and analyses are reliable and detached from specific interests., The communication strategy provides an overview of our strategic communication goals and efforts to further develop Statistics Denmark’s external communication, including communication to and with our different target groups. , , Statistics are only valuable, when they are trustworthy, comparable internationally, and timely., The faster statistics are made public, the better the knowledge we have of society – a society in constant development. The times need numbers, and numbers must be there on time.

https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/strategi-og-kvalitet/strategi

Data Fair in Ghana

Statistics Denmark has participated in the ‘Data Fair’ in Accra, Ghana. Here parliamentarians met with Ghana Statistical Service to discuss the crucial role of data and statistics for decision-making. , 31 May 2021 13:00 , , We have been to Ghana - at least on video. The event took place from May 26-28, th, with our engagement as part of the Strategic Sector Cooperation, funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the ‘Data Fair’, parliamentarians met with Ghana Statistical Service to discuss the crucial role of data and statistics for decision-making., , Director for Social Statistics, Niels Ploug is speaking on line from Copenhagen, Denmark. , Photo: Harrison Ofori, , As part of the ‘Data Fair’ Director for Social Statistics, , Niels Ploug, , spoke about the relevance of using administrative data for the production of statistics in a video shot at Statistics Denmark. Our colleagues at the Embassy of Denmark, Ghana, were attending the event. , An inventory of administrative data for the production of statistics is based on a digitalisation of administrative procedures. This requires political decisions to modernise the administration of sectors like population registration and give the statistical agency unlimited access to data. And positively, in the key notes of the Ghana Speaker of Parliaments, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, announced that “if we have data, let us go with data”. , Denmark has produced population statistics based on administrative data since the 1970’s and therefore our experts at Statistics Denmark are pleased to assist Ghana, through the Strategic Sector Collaboration, in their development of statistics based on administrative data. The process of digitalising the registration of birth and death and establishing the Ghana Card is essential and a good place to start. A bold vision would be for the upcoming 2021 Population and Housing Census to be replaced by administrative data for 2031 Census.,

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2021/28-05-2021-Data-fair-in-Ghana

Data Processing Services

WHY THE NEED FOR A DATA PROCESSOR AGREEMENT?, According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data processing made on behalf of others must be regulated by a contract or other legally binding document. As Statistics Denmark performs services that involve processing of our customers’ data, e.g. personal data, we must draw up a so-called data processor agreement by which the customer is the data controller and Statistics Denmark is the data processor., THE DANISH DATA PROTECTION AGENCY’S STANDARD AGREEMENT, Statistics Denmark uses the Data Protection Agency’s standard template and we use the same agreement for all services where we act as a data processor for our customers. , In addition to the data processor agreement, we also draw up a contract for the individual services., Statement of assurance, For resource and security reasons, Statistics Denmark has decided not to be open for inspections by the data controllers. Instead, Statistics Denmark has commissioned an audit report by an external auditing firm to ensure that Statistics Denmark, as a data processor, complies with the General Data Protection Regulation in its capacity of data processor. Upon request, customers with whom we enter a data processor agreement will receive a copy of the audit report., Template of the Danish Data Protection Agency

https://www.dst.dk/en/TilSalg/skraeddersyede-loesninger/priser-og-aftalevilkaar/databehandling