Accessibility and clarity

Release calendar

The publication date appears in the release calendar. The date is confirmed in the weeks before.

Release calendar access

The Release Calender can be accessed on our English website: Release Calender.

User access

Statistics are always published at 8:00 a.m. at the day announced in the release calendar. No one outside of Statistics Denmark can access the statistics before they are published.

News release

These statistics are published yearly in a Danish press release.

Publications

As part of the release of the statistics for the 2023 cohort of parents, Statistics Denmark will publish an analysis focusing on fathers' use of parental leave before and after the introduction of earmarked leave in August 2022.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Parental leave benefits in the following tables:

• BARSEL04: Parents leave before birth and during the child's first year of life by unit, entitlement, mothers education, fathers education, region and time
• BARSEL05: Cohabiting parents leave before birth and in the child's first year of life by unit, entitlement, mothers education, fathers education, region and time
• BARSEL06: Non-cohabiting parents leave before birth and in the child's first year of life by unit, benefit rights, existence, educational combination, region and time
• BARSEL11: Days with parental leave (parent years) by unit, entitlement, sector, social status, industry and time
• BARSEL14: Days with parental leave (parent years) by unit, entitlement, industry and time
• BARSEL24: Parents leave in child's first two years (46 weeks of leave or more) by unit, entitlement, mothers education, fathers education, region and time
• BARSEL25: Cohabiting parents leave in child's first two years (46 weeks of leave or more) by unit, entitlement, mothers education, fathers education, region and time
• BARLOV1: Cohabiting parents leave before birth and in the child´s first year of life by unit, entitlement, mothers education, fathers education, region and time
• BARLOV2: Cohabiting parents on leave (children born August-December) by unit, entitlement, mothers education, fathers education and week
• BARLOV3: Cohabiting parents on leave (children born August-December) by unit, entitlement, area and week
• [LIGEFB1](https://www.statbank.dk/LIGEFB1]: Parents by family relationship of the child, the parent's entitlement to benefits, the highest education completed by the mother, the highest education completed by the father and region
• LIGEFI1: Gender equality indicator of days of parental leave benefits to parents by the highest education completed by the mother, the highest education completed by the father, the parents' level of education and region

Micro-data access

There are two registers; - Barselsdagpengeregisteret - Barselsstatistikregistret

Barselsdagpengeregisteret is updated four times a year, and contains at individual level all periods of maternity benefit.

Barselsstatistikregistret is updated once a year, and contains information for each year at the individual level for the persons who have had a child during the year.

Both the Barselsdagpengeregisteret and the Barselsstatistikregistret are made available to researchers and other analysts who, if they are from authorized research institutions, can access the statistics' Micro-data through Statistics Denmark Research Services

Other

Figures for maternity leave appear as part of the statistics, Persons on public benefits, and can be retrieved via the statistical bank tables of these statistics.

Confidentiality - policy

Data Confidentiality Policy for Statistics Denmark is applied. Cells with fewer than five observations are not displayed.

Confidentiality - data treatment

Statistics Denmark policy of confidence is respected. By publishing cells containing fewer persons than five are omitted.

Documentation on methodology

There are no separate method documents for these statistics, but there is documentation of the underlying programs and registers. However, it is documentation that is largely confidential.

Quality documentation

Results from the quality evaluation of products and selected processes are available in detail for each statistics and in summary reports for the Working Group on Quality.