Comparability

Comparability - geographical

To Eurostat data are provided only every second year and for enterprises with less 20 person employed (according to EU's regulation). In the Statistics Database of Eurostat the distributions of the turnover by services and residence of client are published on Eurostat's homepage. It is considered that there are good comparability across countries, because the statistics should be produced by common guidelines and principles.

Comparability over time

The statistics is comparable from 2023 and onwards, where it only covers enterprises with at least five employees. This is because the questionnaire has been revised a few times since 2003. Moreover, from the reference year 2013 the method is changed so the enumeration is based on a new data from the Central Business Register. Data are back calculated for 2012. Which means that the results before the year 2012 are not directly comparable to the results from 2012 onwards. From 2023 the enumeration is only done for the part of the population that has at least 5 employees, instead of the whole industry.

In Statistics Bank the data can be found back to 2004. Due to the differences in methods and units the data for the earlier years can't be expected to compare with the previous data beginning with year 2012, or with the current timeseries beginning with 2023.

Coherence - cross domain

At national level the data for the survey are grossed up to the provisional turnover from the Accounts Statistics for Non-Agricultural Private Sector. At European level the data for the statistics are grossed up to the level for the final version of the Danish Accounts Statistics for Non-Agricultural Private Sector.

Coherence - internal

Not relevant for these statistics.