Accuracy and reliability

Overall accuracy

The statistics are based on records from KY. The records are based on an authorized account plan made by the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior. The municipalities have an economic incentive to make valid registrations, because the government reimbursement to municipalities is based on the registrations. Therefore, the overall accuracy is at a high level.

Sampling error

Not relevant for these statistics.

Non-sampling error

Not relevant as it is a full sample.

Quality management

Statistics Denmark follows the recommendations on organisation and management of quality given in the Code of Practice for European Statistics (CoP) and the implementation guidelines given in the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (QAF). A Working Group on Quality and a central quality assurance function have been established to continuously carry through control of products and processes.

Quality assurance

Statistics Denmark follows the principles in the Code of Practice for European Statistics (CoP) and uses the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (QAF) for the implementation of the principles. This involves continuous decentralized and central control of products and processes based on documentation following international standards. The central quality assurance function reports to the Working Group on Quality. Reports include suggestions for improvement that are assessed, decided and subsequently implemented.

Quality assessment

The statistics is a total count based on administrative data including all persons who receive cash benefits. There is thus no sampling error and other sources to errors are determined by the quality of the incoming administrative data. The statistics is based on records made by the municipalities in KY. The municipalities receive reimbursement of the expenses they hold concerning cash benefits based on registrations cf. the authorized account plan of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior. Therefore the municipalities have an economic incentive to make the correct registrations.

Data revision - policy

Statistics Denmark revises published figures in accordance with the Revision Policy for Statistics Denmark. The common procedures and principles of the Revision Policy are for some statistics supplemented by a specific revision practice.

Data revision practice

The quarterly statistics can be considered as the provisional figures of the yearly statistics. When new figures are published quarterly, the figures of the previous quarter are updated.