Comparability
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The current statistics on persons receiving public benefits covers in general the time period from the 1. of January 2007 and onwards. Persons receiving ordinary education (SU-modtagere) is only included from the 1. of January 2008 and onwards. From 2006 to 2007 there are some differences in the covering and in the concepts. However, some time series in the stat bank starts back in the first quarter of 1994. The general comparability is reduced by the many changes in the measures over time. When the statistics is based on a number of national administrative registers it is obviously very difficult to make any international comparisons. However, Eurostat has tried to make some international comparisons in the area of participants/expenditures on some sorts of public benefits through their Labour Market Policy (LMP)-database.
Comparability - geographical
When the statistics is based on a number of national administrative registers it is obviously very difficult to make any international comparisons. However, Eurostat has tried to make some international comparisons in the area of participants/expenditures on some sorts of public benefits through their Labour Market Policy (LMP)-database.
Comparability over time
The current statistics on persons receiving public benefits covers in general the time period from the 1. of January 2007 and onwards. Persons receiving ordinary education (SU-modtagere) is only included from the 1. of January 2008 and onwards. From 2006 to 2007 there are some differences in the covering and in the concepts. However, from the first quarter of 1994 some figures on each labour market measure are comparable, while figures on flex- and sheltered jobs are comparable from the third quarter of 1999, and figures of Integration allowance are comparable from the first quarter of 2000. The general comparability is reduced by the many changes in the measures over time.
Coherence - cross domain
Due to the elimination of illegal overlapping time spends for a person registered as receiving different kinds of public benefits it is not possible to find the exact same figures in the primary statistics. However in the primary statistics of cash benefits it should be possible to retrieve the changes in the number of persons entitled to claim cash benefits participating in activation. The quarterly statistics on cash benefits differ from these integrated statistics in that they are based on data on expenditures (instead of participants). Furthermore, the statistics on cash benefits contain data on persons who are waiting for an offer of activation. When you try to compare these integrated statistics on all persons receiving public benefits with other primary statistics (for example sickness benefit or maternity leave or early retirement pay) you find similar differences.
Coherence - internal
There is no (internal) conflicting information in the published statistics on persons receiving public benefits, because conflicting information in the different administrative input registers is solved during the elimination of illegal overlapping time spells for the same person.