Reusable assistive products

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Lending of assistive products 2023

Reusable assistive products 2022

The purpose of the statistics Lending of assistive products is to shed light on the municipalities' lending of assistive products from the municipalities' aid depots. These are assistive products allocated according to selected sections in the Act of Social Service, the Working Environment Act and the Health Act. The statistics are used to account for how many people are given assistive products and for the type of product that is handed out. The statistics are published for the first time for 2023.

Statistical presentation

The statistics of lending of assistive products is an annual inventory of assistive products that are allocated according to selected sections in the Act of Social Service, the Working Environment Act and the Health Act. The statistics contain information on how many assistive products have been handed out and the type of product. In addition, there is information on the number of people who have been given a assistive product. The statistics can be broken down by municipality, age and gender.

Statistical processing

Data for the statistics on assistive products are collected quarterly from the municipalities via automatic reports from the professional systems or via a web-based reporting solution. The collected data goes through an error-finding procedure, where the municipalities receive aggregated data, which they must approve. When the data has been validated by the municipalities and finally approved, Statistics Denmark processes the collected data and removes invalid data.

Relevance

The statistics are relevant for ministries, researchers, nongovernmental organizations and municipalities and as a basis for analyzes of the development in the number of services provided and the recipients characteristics and living conditions.

Accuracy and reliability

This publication is based on data from 97 municipalities where 97 municipalities have approved all data concerning data on distribution and submission of assistive products. Precision and reliability are primarily affected by inadequate reports from the municipalities, especially concerning the legal section. Further more the assistive products that are reported might differ between municipalities and the municipalities might register the delivered assistive products differently.

Timeliness and punctuality

These statistics are published annually. Publications are released on time, as stated in the release calendar.

Comparability

The statistics cover the period from 1st of July 2022 onwards and are published for the first time for a whole year for 2023. No comparable data has therefore been published. Data cannot be directly compared with international statistics.

Accessibility and clarity

These statistics are published once a year in a Danish press release, at the same time as the tables are updated in the StatBank. In the StatBank, these statistics can be found under the subject subject. Researchers and other analysts from authorized research institutions, can be granted access to the underlying Micro-data by contacting Research Services. For further information, go to the subject page.