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    Supervisory Board

    Statistics Denmark is managed by a supervisory board with the Director General in the chair, and it includes seven other members. The supervisory board establishes its own rules of procedure and appoints one of its members as vice-chair. By law, the supervisory board chaired by the Director General is responsible for the following:, The overall strategy and financial management of Statistics Denmark, while the Director General has the sole responsibility for defining the professional criteria for development, collection, compilation and dissemination of Statistics Denmark’s statistical output., The professional independence of the official statistics and of the institution of Statistics Denmark., Consideration and decisions in matters of interest to the strategic management of the institution, including work programme, statistical programme and budget. Decisions as to the extent and ways of collecting data from the business community, including for the purpose of implementing EU and national legislation. In this way, the supervisory board is responsible for the reporting task imposed by Statistics Denmark on the business community., Via the work programme and statistical programme, decisions about the data that public authorities and institutions must submit to Statistics Denmark., Members of the Board, Martin Ulrik Jensen (chair), Director General, David Dreyer Lassen (vice-chair), Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Ida Sofie Jensen, Group Executive Director of the Danish Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, Mads Bryde Andersen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Rikke Hougaard Zeberg, Director General, Agency for Climate Data, Anne Lawaetz Arhnung, Former CEO, Danish Agriculture & Food Council, Lars Andersen, Director of the Economic Council of the Labour Movement, Signe Krogstrup, Member of the Board of Governors, Danmarks Nationalbank

    https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/organisation/bestyrelsen

    Px-format and Px-programs

    Px programs for data processing and presentation of statistics, Px is a standard format for statistics files used by many statistical offices. A package of software has been developed for this format: PxWeb, PxWin and PxEdit., The Px format contains metadata (varialble texts, codes, sources, date, etc.) and data. This format can manage multi-dimensional data., The Px file format consists of a number of keywords. These can be either mandatory or optional. , PxWeb, PxWeb is a software program for online publication of statistics, both data from the StatBank and your own data. , The program is free of charge for government agencies and municipalities, international NSI's, and international organisations dissemianting statistics. , PxWin, PxWin is an application developed at Statistics Sweden. It was released in June 2016 and replaced PC-Axis. , The application can be used for selection, calculation of totals, production of graphs and more. Px files can be downloaded from the StatBank., PxEdit, PxEdit is a program for Px files developed by Statistics Finland. In PxEdit you can process your Px files in various ways. For example, you can create Px files based on data from Excel., Contact, If you have enquiries about the Px products, please contact Lars Knudsen, 22 80 03 18, , lak@dst.dk, . However, Statistics Denmark provides no support services for the free products. , Links, The manual is only available in Danish, see:, Read more about PxWeb and download the program here, Read more about PxEdit and download the program here,  

    https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/hjaelp-til-statistikbanken/px-format

    Quality policy

    Statistics Denmark is a professionally and politically independent institution developing, producing and publishing statistics on society. Statistics Denmark produces impartial and objective statistics in accordance with recognised methods and statistical procedures. Furthermore, Statistics Denmark ensures statistical confidentiality. Our goal is for the statistics to be accurate and reliable, coherent and comparable., Statistics Denmark defines the statistics on the basis of users’ needs, publish them timely and punctually and aim to present them in a clear and understandable way. To this end, Statistics Denmark’s professional independence is specified by law, cf. Act on Statistics Denmark, and it is ensured that the staff has adequate education, training and experience to accommodate the current statistical requirements., Statistics Denmark produces and disseminates official statistics and ensures coherence within and between the statistics, including comparability over time and geographical areas. To the widest extent possible, existing administrative sources are used to minimise the reporting burden on enterprises and citizens., Statistics Denmark emphasises good service, efficiency and cost-effectiveness to fulfil the increasing national and international requests. Statistics Denmark participates in the international cooperation and meets the requirements to the European statistical system., Statistics Denmark is working according to well-defined methods and plans. Quality indicators and other important factors concerning processes and products are well-defined, and outputs are monitored in accordance with these. If the quality indicators are not satisfactory, changes and improvements of processes and procedures will be implemented., Statistics Denmark’s quality system is based on the 16 principles in the European statistics Code of Practice, as published by Eurostat:, Professional independence, 1bis Coordination and cooperation, Mandate for data collection and access to data, Adequacy of resources, Commitment to quality, Statistical confidentiality and data protection, Impartiality and objectivity, Sound Methodology, Appropriate statistical procedures, Non-excessive burden on respondents, Cost-effectiveness, Relevance, Accuracy and reliability, Timeliness and punctuality, Coherence and comparability, Accessibility and clarity

    https://www.dst.dk/en/OmDS/kvalitet-og-styring/kvalitet-for-statistikproduktion/kvalitetspolitik