Manufacturers’ Sales of Goods

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The declaration has two parts: 1) Sales of goods and services and 2) Total turnover:

1) Sales of goods and services:

Types of production: Sales of goods and services includes four types of production: 1) Production on own production account, 2) Production outsourced to others, 3) Production as a subcontractor, 4) Industrial services. You can read more about types of productions here: What data should I declare (PDF)?

Commodity codes: Sales of goods and services must be declared by distribution them by commodity/goods codes. You can find them in the declaration solution. Your most used commodity/goods codes will be saved each time. You can read more here: Commodity/goods codes and units of quantity (in Danish) or Industrial service codes (in Danish).

Quantity and value: You have to declare quantity and value for each commodity code (excl. VAT).

To enter manually or to upload? If you have many goods to declare, you can import your data as an Excel-spreadsheet, instead of manually entering it – see below: How can you declare?

2) Total turnover:

• Total turnover includes the sum of sales of goods and services and the discounts, bonuses, merchandise sales and other turnover. You enter the data manually.

If your company has not sold goods or services during the quarter, you only need to declare the total turnover data.

Read more about the contents of the declaration (PDF).

Typical time spent per. survey is approx. 30 minutes

Companies can voluntarily state the time spent in the declaration solution. Companies typically spends approx. 30 minutes on a declaration – including access, provision of information, data entry and possible support.

You declare via IDEP, where you can either enter the data manually or import a file with your data on the sales of goods. Data on total turnover is entered manually.

You have to prepare your file, before you start your survey , if you want to import your data on the sales of goods – see the Quick guide: Declare by importing sales of goods data (PDF).

Start your data declaration in IDEP

• Click on Start your declaration at the top of this page.
• Click on Create a new declaration.
• Choose survey: Prodcom.
• Choose declaration type:
  • Import data from file
  • No sale of own goods
  • Manual data entry
• Choose period: For example: 2023-1: 1st Quarter 2023.
• Choose production types for the goods sold: 1) Own production, 2) Goods produced for the company, by a subcontractor, 3) Goods produced by the company, as a subcontractor, for others, 4) Industrial services.

Declare sales of goods data

• Quick guide: Declare by manually entering sales of goods data (PDF).
• Quick guide: Declare by importing sales of goods data (PDF).

Declare total turnover

• Check the total value of the declared sales of goods and services.
• Enter the data on any discounts, bonuses, merchandise sales and other turnover.
• Click on: APPROVE AND CONTINUE.
• Click on: Yes, send declaration (the declaration is not registered until it is sent).

• What data should I declare? (PDF)
• Quick guide: Declare by manually entering sales of goods data (PDF).
• Quick guide: Declare by importing sales of goods data (PDF).
• Warnings in IDEP - PRODCOM (If your data differs from your previous declaration).
• Replacement declaration in IDEP (If you would like to change your declaration).

Commodity/goods and industrial service codes:

• Commodity/goods and units of quantity (in Danish).
• Industrial service codes (in Danish).

Dataimport example files:

• PRODCOM Excel-line-DK.
• PRODCOM Excel-line-ENG.

Declaration is mandatory by law.

EU legislation obliges Denmark to produce a number of business statistics.

Act on Statistics Denmark, Section 8-12a obliges businesses to declare information for statistics.

The numbers of companies with report requirement

Approx. 3.000 kind-of-activity units are required to report quarterly, every year.

How are the companies chosen?

All kind-of-activity units with main industry in manufacturing and raw material extraction with at least 10 full-time employees or with an annual turnover of more than DKK 100 million are required to report. The population is chosen once a year based on the industry data at the start of the reference year and employment in the 3^rd quarter the year before.