Comparability

Comparability - geographical

No comparison to foreign statistics of the music school sector has been made, but interested readers can compare Danish results to statistics from the European School Musical Union or statistics prepared by the Swedish Arts Schools Council.

Comparability over time

The statistics are not directly comparable with previous statistics regarding music schools that was published by the Ministry of Culture up to the season 2012/2013 due to differences in the applied methods. The previous statistics was not based on the registration of individual pupils in e.g. pre-school classes but primarily on the attendance. It is not possible to quantitatively estimate the resulting data break. As of 2018/2019, the muncipalities' grants for music schools and results derived thereof are no longer presented in the results.

From the period 2021/2022, students continue to be classified as so-called activity students, i.e. the total number of registrations for the teaching, which is calculated without regard to whether it takes place as one-on-one or group teaching. A new calculation method ensures that a student who has participated in the same subject more than once is only counted as an activity student within the subject in question. This has reduced the total number of activities by almost 1000 activity students when compared to previous calculation methods.

Due to the lack of reporting companion programs to the schools' administration system for a municipality in the 2021/22 season, the number of activity students and unique students for the course "preschool" and "subjects in total" is approximately 500 activity students/unique students too low in the tables SKOLM02A and SKOLM02B.

Coherence - cross domain

Further information on the activities of the MGK Centers can be found in Danish at the website of The Agency for Culture and Palaces. Also, music schools are part of the industry branch “Cultural Education”(industry branch code DB07: 86.52.00) along with other institutions supplying hobby/leisure education in dance, drama and other creative subjects. Annual turnover, full-time employment and the number of jobs for this industry is presented in the table ERHV1.

Coherence - internal

Not relevant for these statistics.