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For the time being the sample of an omnibus survey consists of 1,500 persons, drawn from a population of persons aged 16-74 residing in Denmark.
As it is not possible to interview all 1,500 persons, each completed interview is given a personal weight, which corrects the effects of non-sampling and non-response (including no telephone) and ensures that the results cover the whole population in the sample.
However, the questions on home appliances do not concern the individual person, but the family he/she is living with. For that reason the answers are given a family weight, which ensures that the families with different numbers of persons aged 16 years or over are represented in the sample with varying probability. A family is defined as one or several persons between 16 and 74 years who live in the same accommodation and are related (includes also cohabiting couples) and their children, though there can only be one married or cohabiting couple in the family. The sum of the family weight for all completed interviews, gives the number of families in Denmark that have persons aged between 16 and 74 years.
In the frame of data validation the check of the data correctness is conducted by checking the consistency of the responses by every single respondent, comparison of the results with the results of the previous year, as well as comparison of the non-response rate are also undertaken.
Source data
The data is collected through Statistics Denmark's Omnibus Surveys. These surveys are sample surveys, where a representative sample of persons between 16 and 74 years is interviewed about different topics that alone would be too small to be carried out as an independent survey. Since 1974, one of these subjects has been the possession of home appliances. The results are adjusted on the basis of a post stratification by age, sex, geography and marital status, and thus cover the whole population in the relevant age groups. The sample size is approx. 1.500 persons.
Frequency of data collection
Yearly.
Data collection
Omnibus survey.
Data validation
In the frame of data validation the check of the data correctness is conducted by checking the consistency of the responses by every single respondent, comparison of the results with the results of the previous year, as well as comparison of the non-response rate are also undertaken.
Data compilation
The information is collected through the so-called omnibus surveys. For the time being the sample of an omnibus survey consists of 1,500 persons, drawn from a population of persons aged 16-74 residing in Denmark.
As it is not possible to interview all 1,500 persons, each completed interview is given a personal weight, which corrects the effects of non-sampling and non-response (including no telephone) and ensures that the results cover the whole population in the sample.
However, the questions on home appliances do not concern the individual person, but the family he/she is living with. For that reason the answers are given a family weight, which ensures that the families with different numbers of persons aged 16 years or over are represented in the sample with varying probability. A family is defined as one or several persons between 16 and 74 years who live in the same accommodation and are related (includes also cohabiting couples) and their children, though there can only be one married or cohabiting couple in the family. The sum of the family weight for all completed interviews, gives the number of families in Denmark that have persons aged between 16 and 74 years.
Adjustment
No furtherer adjustments are undertaken, beyond those that have already been described under Data validation and Data compilation.