Comparability

Comparability - geographical

Covering private enterprises excluding agriculture, the General enterprise statistics can be compared to the Business Statistics published by Eurostat.

Comparability over time

The General enterprise statistics was republished for the reference years 2019-2022. It is based on the new activity threshold, which includes economically active enterprises, and more economic units have been formed for the largest enterprises. It is therefore not directly comparable to the previous time series covering 2000-2021.

From the reference year 2019 active enterprises and hereby economically active enterprises is delimited so that statistic only includes enterprises with atleast ½ of a full time equivalent or either turnover, purchase of goods, imports, exports, value added and balance sheet totals above a certain threshold. If the enterprises own enterprises or are jointly settled with regard to VAT or have employees with enterprises that are actually active, the enterprises will also be considered to be active enterprises.

From the reference year 2019 some of the largest enterprises in the Accounts statistics for Non-Agricultural Private Sector are accounted for as economic units. An economic unit is defined as the smallest possible combination of legal units (CVR-Number) under the same ownership, which is assessed to function as a single unit. For the economic units containing multiple legal units, internal transfers between the legal units are eliminated, and their financial statements are consolidated to one. Hereby the economic units will have a slightly lower turnover compared to the legal units, but it will also be closer to the real turnover. If an economic unit consists of legal units in different sector, i.e. one in manufacturing and one in wholesale trade, then the economic unit will be placed in manufacturing. Prior to 2022 there were only few economic units.

Coherence - cross domain

For activity performed in the private sector excluding agriculture, it is possible to compare the statistics with the Danish Accountant statistics for enterprises.

Coherence - internal

The statistics are based on multiple sources with different types of units. Therefore, the statistics are processed so that type of unit will be the same across sources.