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Parental leave benefits

How many days of parental leave do fathers and mothers take with benefits or salary? Find statistics on parental leave broken down by gender and education.

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/sociale-forhold/offentligt-forsoergede/barselsdagpenge

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Input-output

e-mail:

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/oekonomi/nationalregnskab/input-output

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REGN10A: Key figures in per cent for accounts statistics

industry, items and time
2019-2023 (Per cent)

https://www.statbank.dk/REGN10A

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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

Px-format and Px-programs

Px programs for data processing and presentation of statistics, Px is a standard format for statistics files used by many statistical offices. A package of software has been developed for this format: PxWeb, PxWin and PxEdit., The Px format contains metadata (varialble texts, codes, sources, date, etc.) and data. This format can manage multi-dimensional data., The Px file format consists of a number of keywords. These can be either mandatory or optional. , PxWeb, PxWeb is a software program for online publication of statistics, both data from the StatBank and your own data. , The program is free of charge for government agencies and municipalities, international NSI's, and international organisations dissemianting statistics. , PxWin, PxWin is an application developed at Statistics Sweden. It was released in June 2016 and replaced PC-Axis. , The application can be used for selection, calculation of totals, production of graphs and more. Px files can be downloaded from the StatBank., PxEdit, PxEdit is a program for Px files developed by Statistics Finland. In PxEdit you can process your Px files in various ways. For example, you can create Px files based on data from Excel., Contact, If you have enquiries about the Px products, please contact Lars Knudsen, 22 80 03 18, , lak@dst.dk, . However, Statistics Denmark provides no support services for the free products. , Links, The manual is only available in Danish, see:, Read more about PxWeb and download the program here, Read more about PxEdit and download the program here,  

https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/hjaelp-til-statistikbanken/px-format

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/kvalitet-og-styring/kvalitet-for-statistikproduktion/kvalitetspolitik

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

Annual Report 2021

The Annual Report 2021 for International Consulting is out!, 1 March 2022 7:00 ,  , Are you interested in understanding how statistics is a precondition to monitor a green transition? And how we at Statistics Denmark strive to provide relevant capacity building globally focused on for example the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting?, Get to know our in-house experts and their experience travelling the world. How is Karin Blix’s experience working with our partner in Morocco on quality principles in statistics? Together with the Danish Embassy in Morocco., What motivated Martin Sædholm Nielsen and Martin Birger Larsen to work on the Consumer Price Index in Ghana together with Ghana Statistical Service?, Read about our key achievements in 2021 in Georgia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Vietnam, Ghana, Morocco and many more., Explore the content of our upcoming actives in Northern Cyprus and Africa together with Statistics France, Expertise France, Statistics Finland, Statistics Spain and Statistics Poland.         , The report contains key updates, expert stories as well as photos and videos about our projects., Many thanks to all our partner statistical bureaus, NGO’s and other stakeholders that are involved. We look forward to continue the journey. , You can find the report here - also available in a printable version.

https://www.dst.dk/en/consulting/news-from-international-consulting/2022/01-03-2022-annual-report-2021

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