Environmental accounts for Denmark (Discontinued)
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These statistics are no longer compiled under the name Environmental Accounts for Denmark. Now specific documentations of statistics can be found under the subject page Environmental-Economic Accounts.
Statistical presentation
The environmental accounts contain information on a) Material flows in the form of the the weight of Danish resource extraction, import and exports, b) Air emissions of different substances (CO2, N2O, CH4, PFC, HFC, SF6, NOx, NMVOC, CO, PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NH3), c) Public expenditure and revenue on the environment as well as d) Environmental related taxes etc.
The definitions used in the environmental accounts ensures that the information immediately can be used for analyses of the interaction between the economic activities and e.g. air emissions of some of the above-mentioned substances.
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Statistical processing
Emission accounts are compiled taking energy accounts as a starting point for the emissions caused by the use of energy. Emissions caused by other factors than energy use are added subsequently and distributed among the relevant industries.
Tax revenues are broken down by industries on the basis of detailed information from National Accounts.
Material Flow Accounts are compiled on the basis of internal and external sources on resource extraction.
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Relevance
Environmental Accounts are relevant for those interested in the correlation between the economy on the one side and environment and natural resources on the other side. Ministries and consultant firms are among the main users of environmental accounts. Accounts are included in the overall European environmental accounts, collected and compiled by Eurostat.
Accuracy and reliability
Figures on statistical uncertainty have not been estimated.
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Timeliness and punctuality
Data is normally published without delays.
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Comparability
The industry classification in the tables is the same as the one used in the national accounts. The tables can therefore be compared to other statistics based on the industry classification. Accounts are compiled in form of time series. For example accounts for air emissions are available for each year from 1990 until the last year that is published. Accounts are consistent and fully comparable within these years. On the more aggregated level (NACE 64), the Danish accounts are comparable with accounts of other EU countries compiled according to the Regulation no. 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts.