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Pan-African Statistics – PASII 2022-2025

The Pan-African Statistics project is part of an EU funded programme counting two projects (SOCSTAF - Social Statistics and ECOBUSAF - Economic and Business Statistics) headed by Statistics Denmark and Statistics France (INSEE) respectively. The Danish-headed project focuses on support to producing official statistics within the social domains of education, health, and labour and counts consortium partners from the NSIs of France, Finland, Spain and Poland. , The aim of the Danish-led part of the project (SOCSTAF) is to support African integration through strengthening the African Statistical System and ensure the use of quality statistical data in the decision-making process and policy monitoring, in order to facilitate monitoring of societal progress in Africa, with a special focus on the social domain., The project is reinforcing the capacity of selected African national statistical offices in producing good quality social statistics in fields of health, education, and labour and thus contributing to the following three outputs:, Output 1: , Reliable, and, harmonized statistics are, collected and analyzed, based on international, standards recognized and, applied across the entire, African Statistical System, in a number of key sectors, relevant for African, integration (with, disaggregation by sex, age,, and disability where, relevant), Output 2: , Reliable, and, harmonized statistics are, disseminated to users and, used as evidence for, informed, decision-making., Output 3: , The institutional, capacity of the African, statistical system is, increased, at, national, level., Partner countries in Africa, Partner countries for Statistics Denmark under PASII are:, Senegal, Tunisia, Rwanda and South Africa. Subjects to be covered are the following:, Senegal:  Establishment of a Statistical Business Register, Tunisia: Media training on communication with the press., Rwanda: Installation of PX-Web (software to publicize tables in a databank on the web)., South Africa: Use of administrative micro data., ECOBUSAF-SOCSTAF Newsletter, #1 February 2024, #1 February 2024, #2 September 2024, #2 September 2024

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/projects/pan-african-statistics-pasii-2022-2025

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

Arrears to general government

Development in public arrears , Introduction, An arrear is a person’s or a company’s debt to the government, which have not been paid on time., Arrears affect the government liquidity and, if the arrears cannot be collected also the government deficit/surplus., In the tables the tax arrears is valuated at their nominal value, i.e.100. In the national accounts tax arrears for 2013-2017 is written down to market value. The implied write-off can be seen in the Statbank table SKRES2., Documentation, Documentation of statistics, Get an overview of the purpose, content and quality of the statistics. Here you can find information on the sources that the statistics are derived from, what the statistics contains and how often it is published., Public arrears, Key figures, In Statbank Denmark, you can find more data on Public arrears (OFFRES10), Related content in Arrears to general government, Tables in Statbank , Scheduled releases , Contact, Martin Rune Rasmussen, Phone: +45 24 77 42 71, Mail: , mra@dst.dk

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/oekonomi/offentlig-oekonomi/restancer-til-det-offentlige

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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

Documentation of statistics: Births (Discontinued)

Contact info, Population and Education , Get documentation of statistics as pdf, Births 2016 , Previous versions, Births 2015, The statistics cover all births by women living in Denmark at the time of the birth., Statistical presentation, The statistics contains information about live births and stillbirths by sex and age, ancestry and municipality of the mother. Furthermore the children have information about the birth weight and birth length and whether they were a part of a multiple birth., Read more about statistical presentation, Statistical processing, Daily deliveries from the Central Population Register (CPR) and yearly delivery from Statens Serum Institut (SSI) are basis for the statistics., Data isn't checked for errors., Read more about statistical processing, Relevance, Municipalities, regions, ministries, the media and private individuals are using the statistics for public and private purposes and as input to the public debate, Read more about relevance, Accuracy and reliability, The statistics are based on the Central Population Register (CPR). The quality of the data is very high., The data from Statens Serum Institute is also of a high quality., Read more about accuracy and reliability, Timeliness and punctuality, The statistics concerning births is published app. 45 days after the ending of the year., Information concerning the weight, length, multiple births and stillbirths are received from Statens Serum Institut (SSI) and are published very irregular., Read more about timeliness and punctuality, Comparability, The statistics is comparable over time., Read more about comparability, Accessibility and clarity, News from Statistics Denmark, and the Statbank., Yearly publications: , Vital statistics, , , Statistical Yearbook, and , Statistical ten-year review, ., Read more about accessibility and clarity

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Documentation of statistics: Fertility database (Discontinued)

Contact info, Population and Education , Lisbeth Harbo , +45 20 58 64 08 , LHB@dst.dk , Get documentation of statistics as pdf, Fertility database 2018 , Previous versions, Fertility database 2016, The fertility database contain information on births and the relation between children and their parents., Statistical presentation, These statistics are a yearly measurement of the number of newborn and the number of births, both live and stillborn. The average weight ant length are also published. These statistics are grouped by sex and type of birth, e.g. twin birth., Read more about statistical presentation, Statistical processing, Data from administrative sources are collected, matched and validated, before simple summarization, grouping and calculation of averages., Read more about statistical processing, Relevance, Public interest in knowledge about families and births. Medical and social science research., Read more about relevance, Accuracy and reliability, These statistics are based on administrative registers that are considered to almost fully the entire population. However, weight and length information is missing for up to half the stillborn., Read more about accuracy and reliability, Timeliness and punctuality, These statistics are published approximately nine months after the end of the reference year. These statistics are published without delay, with reference to the announced time of publication in the release calendar., Read more about timeliness and punctuality, Comparability, There is comparability over time for the published period. There are small differences in relation to the Medical Birth Register and the number of live born in the population statistics., Read more about comparability, Accessibility and clarity, These statistics are published yearly in a Danish press release, at the same time as the tables are updated in the StatBank. In the StatBank, these statistics can be found under , Births, ., Read more about accessibility and clarity

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Documentation of statistics: Marriages and Divorces (Discontinued)

Contact info, Population and education , Annemette Lindhardt Olsen , alo@dst.dk , Get documentation of statistics as pdf, Marriages and Divorces 2016 , Previous versions, Marriages and Divorces 2014, The statistics concerns the marriages and divorces in Denmark., Statistical presentation, Statistics on marriages concerns those marriages where both parties to the marriage have their usual residence in Denmark as well as the marriages where one of the parties in the marriage has his/her usual residence in Denmark., Statistics on divorces concerns those divorces where both parties in the divorce has their usual residence in Denmark as well as those divorces where only one of the parties has his/her usual residence in Denmark., Read more about statistical presentation, Statistical processing, The statistics are based on daily deliveries from the Central Population Register (CPR)., Data isn't checked for errors., Read more about statistical processing, Relevance, The statistics are demanded for and used by the press., Read more about relevance, Accuracy and reliability, The statistics are based on data on the usual resident population in the Central Population Register (CPR). The quality of the data is very high., Read more about accuracy and reliability, Timeliness and punctuality, The statistics on marriages and divorces are published 75 days after the end of the reference year., Read more about timeliness and punctuality, Comparability, As of 15 June 2012 it has been possible for two persons of the same sex to get married and subsequently get divorced while the possibility for two person of the same sex of entering a registered partnership is ceased., Read more about comparability, Accessibility and clarity, News from Statistics Denmark and http://www.statbank.dk, Annual publications: Statistical Yearbook, the Statistical Ten-Year Review and Vital Statistics, Read more about accessibility and clarity

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/documentationofstatistics/marriages-and-divorces--discontinued-

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