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

A New is published annually

Publications

The statistics are not included in any publications from Statistics Denmark other than the annual News

On-line database

These statistics are published in StatBank under Maternity benefits in the following tables:

• BARSEL04: Parental leave (calculated after days of entitlement to benefits)
• BARSEL05: Parental leave, cohabitants (calculated after days)

• BARSEL06: Parental leave, non cohabitants (calculated after days)

• BARLOV1: Parental leave, cohabitants (children born August-December)

• BARLOV2: Cohabiting parents on leave (children born August-December) by education

• BARLOV3: Cohabiting parents on leave (children born August-December) by area

• BARSEL11: Days with parental leave (parent years) by unit, entitlement, sector, social status and industry

• BARSEL14: Days with parental leave (parent years) by unit, entitlement and industry (detailed)

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

The annually updated register, Barselsstatistikregisteret,, will be made available to Forskerservice and DST Consulting before August 2023.

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

Cells with fewer than five observations are not displayed, which meets Statistics Denmark's general policy for protection of personal data.

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.