Statistical processing

Source data

The statistics of long-term unemployment is made out of the register of public benefits, which covers all persons receiving public benefits in the age of 16-64 years from 2007 onwards. Furthermore the register of employees is used, which covers employed persons in firms registered in Denmark from January 2008 onwards.

The gross unemployment is made of data from the Register FLEUR. The Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment is responsible for the data-collection. The source of the Employment statistics is the eIncome Register of Statistics Denmark combined with data from the Business Register and the Population Register of Statistics Denmark. The eIncome Register of Statistics Denmark is based on income information reported to the Income Register of the Danish Tax Authorities (eIncome).

Frequency of data collection

Data for the registers of persons receiving public benefits and employment records are collected every quarter.

Data collection

The statistics of long-term unemployment is made out of the register of public benefits. Furthermore the register of employees is used.

Data validation

To validate data the level and development of the statistics are compared with the register based unemployment statistics. Furthermore, the statistics is recreated for the last three month on the updated dataset to see if there have been any large revisions.

Data compilation

Calculating unemployment spells

1. Persons who has been gross unemployed in a period of time depending on the duration of the unemployment spells (respectively 26, 39, 52, 78, 104, 130 and 156 weeks) are drawn from the database People Receiving Public Benefits.
2. If the person has been gross unemployed all days of the unemployment spell, the person is included in the statistics.
3. If the person is not gross unemployed all days of the unemployment spell it is examined if the period of absence is longer than 28 days. In that case, the person is not included in the statistics.
4. If the period of absence from the gross unemployment is 28 days or below, information about hours of employment from the database of Employees is used to determine if there has been 10 or below hours of employment in the period of absence from gross unemployment. If there has been 10 or below hours of employment in the period of absence from gross unemployment the person is included in the statistics. If there has been more than 10 hours of employment in the period of absence from gross unemployment the person is not included in the statistics.

Additional information

When the unemployment spells has been calculated additional information is added to the statistics.

• Demography including age, sex and place of residence: The information is drawn from The Population database created by Statistics Denmark. The information is drawn as an ultimo status by quarter.
• Type of benefit (unemployment benefit and Social assistance etc.): The information is drawn from the database People Receiving Public Benefits.
• Unemployment fund: The information on unemployment funds is drawn from the database Unemployment funds by Statistics Denmark. The information is an ultimo status by reference month.

Adjustment

Beyond seasonal adjustment the statistics is not adjusted. Further description about the seasonal adjustment can be found below in the section ”Seasonal Adjustment".