Comparability

Comparability - geographical

The statistics are not directly comparable to any international statistics because the services included in the statistics are defined by Danish law.

Comparability over time

The statistics will be published for the first time for a whole year for 2023 and therefore no comparable data has been published.

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Housing and Senior Citizens launched a pilot project in 2017, the aim of which was to collect information on people who are registered in the municipalities' assistive technology systems. The experiences from this project were so good that the ministry initiated permanent statistics on assistive products from 2021, when it was voluntary for the municipalities to report data. From 1st of July 2022, it became mandatory for the municipalities to report to the statistics. Data from the previous projects have not been published.

Coherence - cross domain

Statistics Denmark is not aware of other statistics in this area

Coherence - internal

It is estimated the internal consistency of the data is high. However, there may be a difference between the municipalities' registrations of assistive products and which products the municipalities register and send to Statistics Denmark. Some municipalities, for example, include assistive products according to legal sections that are not listed in the requirement specification. Some include fictitious assistive products and products with fictitious social security numbers in the data. However, invalid social security numbers are excluded from the published data. Some municipalities report assistive products that are granted on the basis of regional agreements.