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 Calendar can be accessed on our English website: Release Calendar.

User access

Statistics are always published at 08:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar. No one outside Statistics Denmark has access to the statistics prior to publication.

News release

These statistics are published yearly in a Danish press release.

Publications

Results of the statistics are published in an annual publication regarding innovation and research: Forskning, udvikling og innovation (in Danish only).

On-line database

These statistics are published in the StatBank under the subject Research and development, where the following tables with annual figures can be found:

• FOUOFF01: R&D personnel in the public sector by sector, main scientific field, personnel category and gender
• FOUOFF02: R&D full-time equivalents in the public sector by sector, main scientific field, personnel category and gender
• FOUOFF03: R&D full-time equivalents in the public sector by purpose and discipline
• FOUOFF04: R&D full-time equivalents (pct.) by purpose and sector
• FOUOFF06: R&D full-time equivalents performed by personnel at higher education institutions under the Universities Act by institution and job category
• FOUOFF07: R&D expenditure in the public sector by field and type of expenditure FOUOFF09: Externally financed R&D expenditure by sector, field and source of funding

Micro-data access

Researchers and other analysts from authorized research institutions, can be granted access to the underlying microdata by contacting Research Services.

Other

The results are available also on Eurostat and OECD websites.

Confidentiality - policy

Data Confidentiality Policy for Statistics Denmark is applied.

Confidentiality - data treatment

In principle information collected for statistics can only serve statistical dissemination. In the statistics published only information for the universities are on the individual level.

Documentation on methodology

On the subject page Research and development you can find guidelines, method documents and questionnaires - in Danish only.

Quality documentation

Documentation on quality management and quality assurance at Statistics Denmark is available in the form of common guidelines and manuals describing the principles and procedures for statistical production. These include descriptions of quality principles documentation requirements and standards for metadata. Relevant aspects are described in the other quality sections of this statistical documentation.