Statistical presentation

Data description

The types of accommodation included in the statistics are those established and run as prescribed by section 110 of the Social Services Act. That is accommodation run by either the region or the municipality, independent and private accommodation facilities that engages in agreement with the region or the municipality as well as any residential institutions established and run as part of a special allocation project if the special allocation project is connected directly to an existing accommodation facility.

The statistics only include accommodation offering residential stays. This means that the statistics do not include drop-in centers and other social centers, which do not provide other forms of residential stays than emergency overnight accommodation.

Classification system

The statistics indicate partly the users distributed by sex, age, total duration of the stays and the number of stays, and partly characteristics of the stays distributed by sex, age and duration of the individual stays.

Sector coverage

Not relevant for these statistics.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Shelters as prescribed by section 110 of the Danish Social Services Act: The municipal council shall provide temporary accommodation in shelters for persons with special problems who have no home or who cannot stay in their own home and who are in need of accommodation and activating support, care and subsequent assistance.

Duration of stay: For the persons who lived in a section 110 shelter at the beginning of the year, a technical check-in at 1 January has been made for the purpose of the statistics bank tables only. This check-in concerns persons who had not been checked out by the end of the previous year and accordingly were still living in an accommodation facility at the beginning of the year. For persons who stayed in a facility on 31 December, only overnight stays in the statistical year are included

Attachment period: For periods, some users use the shelter units in the facilities every night, (After 1 July 2022, stays at shelter units are no longer included in the statistics). Which means that the stays are of a long-term nature. These periods are added up to one stay (attachment period). This calculation method provides a more accurate picture of the actual duration of stays. If measured based on attachment period, there will be fewer stays of 24 hours and correspondingly the average length of stays nationwide will be longer.

Statistical unit

The statistics are calculated at individual level (persons) and at the number of overnight stays.

Statistical population

Persons using a type of accommodation as prescribed by section 110 of the Danish Social Services Act.

Reference area

Denmark.

Time coverage

These statistics cover the period from 1999 and onwards.

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

The unit of measure are the number of persons and the number of stays.

Reference period

01-01-2023 - 31-12-2023

Frequency of dissemination

Annual.

Legal acts and other agreements

Data are retrieved under the authority of section 6 (the public centers) and section 8(4) (the non-public centers) of the Act of Statistics Denmark.

Cost and burden

The accommodation facilities covered by the statistics must be reported to Statistics Denmark on a quarterly basis. From 2017, the number of questions about the users of different types of accommodation has been reduced as the transfer of the statistics from the Appeals Board to Statistics Denmark has enabled pooling with other statistical registers. The accommodations must approve their data at a summarized level before publication. Data from 2017 and onwards has been approved, whereas data from 1999-2016 have not been through an approval process and thus have not been approved by the accommodations before publication.

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