Data from other sources

Here you can get an overview of data from other sources than Statistics Denmark.

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with SSI (Statens Serum Institut) on making COVID-19 test data and vaccination data available to researchers under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes.

COVID-19 testdata includes people who from February 2020 have taken a COVID-19 PCR test and/or antigen test (rapid test) with the microbiological departments, TestCenter Danmark, private COVID-19 test providers or municipalities, schools and educational institutions that can report to MiBa (test data for all test results) via various solutions and technical levels.

COVID-19 vaccination data includes citizens who have taken a COVID-19 vaccination, who have a Danish civil registration number, are alive and have an active address in Denmark on the date of the data extraction, as well as people who were alive and had an active address in Denmark on 27 December 2020 (vaccination data).

See SSI’s documentation for COVID-19 data

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science on making survey data from Denmark’s Study Survey available to researchers under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes.

Data will be released as register UFM_STUD for reference years 2018 and 2020 and subsequently every other uneven reference year.

The variable content in the register is listed under Register- og variabeloversigter and described in more detail in the below documentation.

Spørgeskemaer

Kodebog

Kodebog (xlxs)

Metodenotater

The Danish Health Data Authority's Research Service does not enter into agreements on data disclosure for projects at Statistics Denmark until Statistics Denmark has approved the project.

When you apply for disclosure of data from the Danish Health Data Authority for a new project with Statistics Denmark, the Health Data Authority’s Research Service must thus see the documentation showing that the project has been created and approved by Statistics Denmark. You can submit the documentation in the form of the approved project proposal that you receive as a pdf file from Statistics Denmark.

You can create the project proposal with the Health Data Authority while waiting for approval of your project proposal from Statistics Denmark. Your application will be put on hold until the Health Data Authority has received an approved project proposal, but it is possible to make an agreement so that they continue the review process. However, you should be aware as a researcher that the Danish Health Data Authority will invoice you for the time they spend reviewing the case, and this also applies if Statistics Denmark does not approve the project.

In connection with the establishment of the Oresund statistics and the Oresund databank, a so-called trans-regional register has also been established linking all relocation, commuting and payroll data across the Oresund region in the period 2001-2015. This Research register was established in connection with the establishment of the ØRESTAT statistical bank for the Oresund region.

The trans-regional register is structured as three separate datasets, which can be combined via a common serial number system.

Dataset 1 contains relocation data for relocation across the Oresund strait.
Dataset 2 is a corresponding commuting dataset, where the commuting is delimited by rules corresponding to those of the national commuting statistics, i.e. the main activity must take place on the other side of the Oresund strait.
Dataset 3 includes everyone who has earned wages across Oresund, regardless if the person is categorised as a commuter.

Note that the register is no longer being updated, and that the most recent data is from 2015.

If you have enquiries about access to the register, please write to forskningsservice@dst.dk

The longitudinal database, DREAM, belongs to the Danish Ministry of Employment and is managed by The Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment. The database contains employment information and other basic personal data, and the documentation below gives a more detailed description of it.

Statistics Denmark has made an agreement with the Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment on access to DREAM under the researcher scheme. Research projects that are to use data from Dream can gain access via Statistics Denmark Research Services.

DREAM-vejledning version 47

The HANDICNOTA register includes people who are dyslexic, visually impaired or have another disability that prevents them from reading regular printed text.

Data has been obtained from NOTA (Danish Library and Expertise Centre for people with print disabilities). The register only has information about the disability reported to NOTA for each member, meaning either dyslexia, visual impairment or another disability. In addition to the three categories of disability, the register contains a fourth member group of teachers. This group needs to renew their NOTA membership each year as opposed to the other three member groups.

The documentation of the register is available under

Forudsætninger for brug af HANDICNOTA

Since the end of May 2020, it has been possible to gain access to aid package data in the form of compensation for loss of earnings in Research Services’ databank of basic data.

Two datasets on compensation for loss of earnings

The compensation for loss of earnings data are in two separate registers: LONKOMP - compensation for employees and KOMPSEL - compensation for self-employed persons.

The data has been updated weekly in the databank of basic data upon reception of the aid package data from the Danish Business Authority. On 4 September 2021, data was released for the last week of the aid packages, which expired at the end of August 2021. In the subsequent weeks, data has been updated on a regular basis as the Danish Business Authority has completed its review of the applications. Weekly updates have continued up to and including week 18 in 2022, after which the deliveries from the Danish Business Authority are made occasionally and so are the present and future updates in the databank of basic data.

A dataset on fixed costs

Data for the third aid package on fixed costs is available in the register KOMPFAST - compensation for fixed costs. This data has been available since the end of September 2021. Weekly updates have continued up to and including week 18 in 2022, after which the deliveries from the Danish Business Authority are made occasionally, which is reflected in the present and future updates in the databank of basic data.

You can see the registers’ content of variables in our lists of research variables, forskningsvariabellister

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with the National Building Fund on making the rent register available to authorised institutions under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes. The rent register was established in 2013 and is based on reports from the housing organisations in the non-profit sector.

The rent register has information on for example:

The housing organisations
The housing departments
Social housing at tenancy level

If you have enquiries about access to data, please write to Sigrid Krogstrup Jensen, SIJ@dst.dk.

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with the Danish Tax Authority on making account-specific data from IRTE, URTE, PANT available to businesses and researchers under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes.

This agreement is part of a research infrastructure project called DRDS, giving researchers access to a range of recent data. DRDS is a collaboration between Copenhagen Business School, Statistics Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Roskilde University, University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg University, National Centre for Social Research and Analysis, Danmarks Nationalbank, the Secretariat of the Economic Council, and the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit.

Data contains information on:

Deposit rates (IRTE) for individuals IRTEPERS 2003-2021
Deposit rates (IRTE) for businesses IRTEVIRK 2003-2019
Lending rates (URTE) for individuals URTEPERS 2003-2021
Lending rates (URTE) for businesses URTEVIRK 2003-2019
Mortgages (PANT) for individuals PANTPERS 2003-2021
Mortgages (PANT) for businesses PANTVIRK 2003-2019

Data is described in more detail in the list of variables below

Variabelliste - IRTE URTE og PANT (pdf)

Since 1977, the Danish Health Data Authority’s National Patient Register has functioned as the central registry for information about hospital patients. Statistics Denmark makes National Patient Register (LPR) data available to researchers. In Statistics Denmark, the LPR contains a multitude of particulars on examinations and treatments for all contact with the Danish hospital system, including hospitalisation and outpatient treatment.

The reporting to the National Patient Register version 2 (LPR2) transitioned to a new data format (LPR3) between 1 January 2019 and 3 March 2019. The transition occurred gradually from LPR2 to LPR3, and therefore, there are reports in both LPR2 and LPR3 during this period. After 3 March 2019, reporting in LPR2 was closed, and all reports after that date are registered in LPR3.

LPR2

Statistics Denmark has LPR2 data from 1977 to 2019.

The LPR is a dynamic register that has been continuously updated – even retrospectively. Statistics Denmark has the updated versions of all LPR tables for the years 2005-2019.

For hospital admissions to somatic departments, the register dates back to 1977. Emergency room and outpatient contacts have been registered since 1994. Hospital admissions to psychiatric departments have been registered since 1995. Hospital admissions to private hospitals have been registered since 2002.

For documentation, see eSundhed.dk: Documentation of LPR2 (in Danish)

For information on data and data breaks (Data from other sources and data breaks in LPR2), see below:

Rates:
DRG and DAGS are not part of LPR, but can be linked to the individual admission and contact via the admission ID (recnum). Research Services has rates from 2002 to 2018.
Non-finalised hospital admissions / out-patient contacts (UAF_):
The non-finalised outpatient admissions exist in the LPR that Statistics Denmark has available for the years 1994 onwards.
LPR clean-up:
Up to and including 2009, The Danish Health Data Authority made an LPR clean-up, consisting in:
- Sorting out all departments with special codes in the range 60-69
- Sorting out all healthy companions, DZ763
- Sorting out individual departments, for example departments with names such as ’Forskningsafdeling’ (research department).
Other data break

There may be other data breaks that we are unaware of.

LPR3_F (researcher-oriented LPR3 data model)

Statistics Denmark has LPR3_F data from the Danish Health Data Authority for the years 2019-2021, which can be ordered. The names of the registers begin with LPR_F_ and appear from the register overview (in Danish).

Please read the Health Data Authority’s guide for LPR3_F (in Danish), before you make a request for data.

Statistics Denmark has made an agreement with the Danish Health Data Authority on access to pharmaceutical products data under Statistics Denmark’s researcher scheme. For a more detailed description of the data content, see the website of the Danish Health Data Authority.

If you want access to pharmaceutical products data for your project at Statistics Denmark, you must apply to the Danish Health Data Authority for access. You apply via an online application form, and you must submit a project description, a description of the data extraction and a completed data order form.

On the Research Services website, you will find guidance on how to apply for access..

When you apply for access to pharmaceutical products data, there are special requirements to the content of your application. On the Research Services website, you will find a guide for applying for access to pharmaceutical products data.

When you have the above in place, you can apply for access to data via Statistics Denmark using the application form (in Danish) at Gå til ansøgningsskema on the Research Services page.

The Birth Register holds information about all hospital and home births in Denmark and contributes with data for medical research.

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with the Danish National Archives on making their data available to researchers via Denmark’s Data Portal.

The National Archives collect data from the public administration and Danish research environments, and this data can be relevant for Danish register research, either because data is older than the official statistics registers or because data has a higher degree of detail. Access to data is governed by the Danish Archives Act, which is why there is a special application process for data from the Danish National Archives. This means that all researchers who are active on the project must have permission from the Danish National Archives. If data includes personal data, the National Archives must obtain consent for the permission from the Danish Data Protection Agency before the personal data may be disclosed. If data is less than 20 years old, the National Archives must also obtain consent for the permission from the authority that originally collected the data.

The multi-generation register – Lite

The multi-generation register – Lite (MGR-lite) contains family relations for all Danish citizens born around 1953 or later. This means that it contains family relations from 7 years prior to those of the Civil Registration System (CPR). Until 1978, the Civil Registration System deleted information on family relations when an individual turned 18 years, but the National Archives have maintained snapshots of the Civil Registration System from e.g. 1968, 1969 and 2013, which in MGR-lite have been used to recreate family relations back to 1953.

If you need data from MGR-lite for a research project, note that all participants in the project must obtain permission from the Danish National Archives, and that the National Archives must obtain consent from the Danish Data Protection Agency and the CPR registry, before data may be disclosed for the research project. Accordingly, you should expect a processing time of at least 1-3 months.

You can apply for access to data from MGR-lite via Denmark’s Data Portal.

You can find more information on MGR-lite at the Danish National Archives (in Danish)

Contact Researcher Service at the National Archives if you have further questions.

Ordering data from the Danish National Archives via Denmark’s Data Portal

It is possible to request data from the National Archives via Denmark’s Data Portal. In addition to Statistics Denmark, the National Archives must also approve the project proposal, which is why there is a different procedure for project proposals where this data has been opted for. Please note that this may increase the processing time by 1-3 months.

Basic principles for requesting data from the Danish National Archives

Data relevance and data minimisation

The statement of the purpose of data must be specific, precise and easy-to-understand.
The combination of register units and types of populations must be justified.
Additional data must also be covered in terms of relevance to society/purpose/description.

The proposal must constitute the project overview, while the appendix holds the details

It must be possible to read the proposal and the appendix both separately and as coherent documentation of a project.

The proposal is also sent to the Danish National Archives for approval

This means that the institution administrator or contact person with powers will be asked to enter the following information for each researcher associated with the project. Civil registration number, address, city and postal code.

Requesting data from the National Archives

Complete the project proposal in Denmark’s Data Portal: Start by filling in the purpose of the project proposal, description and relevance to society. Data from the National Archives is selected in the same way as data from other registers.

Adding the Danish National Archives as an external authorising authority: When Research Services has approved the project proposal, the institution administrator or contact person with powers must send it to the National Archives for further approval. This is done from the project proposal page by selecting the button ‘Submit to external authority’.

Enter necessary information for the Danish National Archives: When the project proposal is to be submitted to the National Archives, the institution administrator or contact person with powers will be asked to enter the following information for each researcher associated with the project: Civil registration number, address, city and postal code. This must be done for all researchers all at once. This information is necessary, as the National Archives have their separate principles and requirements. This information is not saved in Denmark’s Data Portal for GDPR reasons. If you break off while entering information, you will thus need to enter the information again.

Await approval from the National Archives: After the project proposal has been submitted to the National Archives, its status will be ‘Pending external authority’ in Denmark’s Data Portal. The National Archives will review the project proposal and send you either an approval or a rejection via e-boks.

Handling of approval: When a researcher receives approval in e-boks, he or she also receives a document that must be signed before the data can be delivered. Note that all researchers associated with the project must sign.
When each researcher has received and signed the approval, an administrator or contact person with powers must mark this in the project proposal. This is done by clicking ’…’ at the top of the project proposal page. Pay attention to the fact that all researchers must be marked all at once when they have signed the approval.

After this, the project proposal can be sent for signature with the signatory of the institution. When all researchers have been marked as approved and ‘Send for signature’ has been selected in the dialogue box, the status of the project changes from ‘Submitted to external authority’ to ‘Approved by external authority’. Now the institution’s signatory can sign the document, and the project is approved. The Danish National Archives and Statistics Denmark will provide data for the project.

If the institution’s signatory refuses to sign, the project proposal is returned and the process must be repeated.

Handling rejections
If a project receives a negative response, there are three options:

Remove the project access for the researcher(s) who received a negative response. Access the project page and remove the researchers who have received a negative response. When the researchers are removed, an email will be sent from Denmark’s Data Portal to the National Archives notifying them that the researchers are removed from the project. Subsequently, the National Archives will be able to assign data to the project.
Withdraw the project proposal if it could not obtain approval from the National Archives. When the project proposal has status as ‘Submitted to external authority’, administrator and contact person have an option to “withdraw” it. In that case, the project proposal will get a new status ‘Pending revision’. When the project proposal has status as ‘Submitted to external authority’ and it is withdrawn, Denmark’s Data Portal will send an email to the National Archives notifying them that the project proposal has been withdrawn. Revise the original project proposal and resubmit it for approval. It is important to note that the project proposal also must be re-approved by Statistics Denmark.
Withdraw the project proposal, remove the National Archives register and resubmit the project proposal for approval.
In this scenario, only Statistics Denmark has to re-approve.

Adding new users to the project after creation
To add a new user after both Statistics Denmark and the National Archives have approved the project, the institution administrator or contact person with powers must go to ‘Project access’, click ‘Add’ and select the person to be added. A window is opened where the researcher’s civil registration number, address, city and postal code must be entered. When the researcher has received approval in e-boks, the institution administrator or contact person with powers can give access to the project. This is done by selecting ’…’ next to the project access and then select ’Confirm approval from external authority’.

Statistics Denmark has made an agreement with the National Agency for IT and Learning (STIL) on access to central registers from the STIL statistical resources under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes. Research projects that are to use data from the comprehensive STIL registers can gain access via Statistics Denmark Research Services.

Elevfravær i grundskolen contains information about the number of days pupils in primary and lower secondary school are absent due to illness, absent with permission and absent without permission on a monthly basis.

Den nationale trivselsmåling i grundskolen for 0.-3. klasse contains replies to questions from the question frame for pupils in primary school, which is part of the national survey of the well-being of schoolchildren.

Den nationale trivselsmåling i grundskolen for 4.-9. klasse contains replies to questions from the question frame for pupils in secondary school, which is part of the national survey of the well-being of schoolchildren. It also contains calculated indicators for social well-being, academic satisfaction, support and inspiration as well as their satisfaction with school in general.

Nationale test i grundskolen (recalculated results 2014/2015 – 2021/2022) contains test results from the mandatory national adaptive tests of proficiency levels in primary and lower secondary school. For the school years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, the tests have been adjusted so that only a combined test result is calculated per test. The results for the period 2014/2015 – 2019/2020 have been recalculated to the same scale as the one used in 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.

Nationale test i grundskolen (original results 2009/2010 - 2019/2020) contains the originally calculated test results (before the recalculation in 2020/2021) from the mandatory adaptive national tests, including a test result in each of the three profile areas that each test features.

Folkeskolens Nationale Overgangstest contains test results from the linear transition tests that replaced the national tests as of 2022/2023. Data is updated annually up to and including 2025/2026.

Kompetencedækning i grundskolen contains information about teachers, the subjects they teach – including whether they have main subject competence in the subject – and about the classes where they are teaching the subjects.

Karakterer i grundskolencontains the test marks and general proficiency marks of pupils in primary and lower secondary school.

You can find the data documentation for each register at the Ministry of children and education.

Contact forskerdata@stil.dk if you have questions regarding data that are not answered in the data documentation.

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science on making The Danish students Grants and Loans scheme (SU) data available to researchers under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes.

Data will be published as the basic register UFM_SU for reference years 1991 onwards.

The variable content in the register is listed in Register- og variabeloversigter and described in more detail in the below documentation:

SU-tildeling 1991 og frem

UDD-koder

Statistics Denmark has entered into an agreement with the Senior Citizen Organisation (Ældre Sagen) on making survey data from the future study available to researchers under Statistics Denmark’s microdata schemes.

Data will be published as the register FREMTIDSSTUDIET. It is a survey of the lives, expectations and desires for the future of 50-89-year-old citizens for the reference years 2010, 2015, and 2021, and subsequently every fifth reference year.

In our register overview (in Danish), you can see the content of variables in the register. It is described in more detail in the documentation below.

The presentation of 2021 data contains background variables bought-in by the senior citizen organisation (Ældre Sagen) in connection with completion of the future study (as of 1 October 2021). The variables pertain to sex, age, highest educational attainment level, socio-economic status, equivalent disposable income for the family, ancestry, municipality and the composition of the family calculated in DST Survey.

The bought-in background variables are presented in the register FREMTIDSSTUDIET as at the time of the study in 2021 and are not changed, even though corrections are being made retrospectively in Research Services’ basic data for the affected areas. Updated background variables thus require further bought-in variables from Research Services.

On the future study

The future study is a longitudinal study, the purpose of which it is to draw a picture of the present and future lives of elderly citizens and their life situation in general – including their desires, needs, expectations and worries about the future.

The study from 2021 is based on answers from 4,990 Danish citizens aged 50 to 89 years to questions revolving around: quality of life, age, health, accommodation, transport, social network, help in everyday life, financial help, loneliness, home care, dignity, welfare and society, volunteering, the labour market, financial circumstances, inheritance, age discrimination and technology.

The future study has previously been completed in 2010 and 2015. Data for the future study was collected all three years by Statistics Denmark via online questionnaires and telephone.

With the future study, it is possible to examine:

Differences in 2021: How did citizens aged 50 to 89 answer in 2021, and are there differences in the replies of men and women and different age groups?
Generational differences: How did for example 50-54-year-old citizens answer in 2021 compared with 50-54-year-old citizens in 2010 and 2015?
Changes over time for the same people: What did people who participated in 2010 and 2015 answer, now that they have become older?

While the sample of the future study back in 2010 consisted of the four age brackets: 50-54 years, 60-64 years, 70-74 years and 80-84 years, the sample in 2021, just as in 2015, covers all eight five-year age brackets from 50-89 years.

The majority of the questions from the future studies 2010 and 2015 recur in 2021. At the same time, questions and answer options have continuously been adjusted to match the social development, and some questions from earlier studies have been excluded, while others have been added. For that reason, it is not possible to compare all questions over time.

Read more about the future study and the method behind the documentation below or at Ældre Sagen.

Survey

Bilag 1_FTS2010_survey

Bilag 2_FTS2015_survey

Bilag 3_FTS2021_survey

Code book

Bilag 4_FTS2010_kodebog

Bilag 5_FTS2015_kodebog

Bilag 6_FTS2021_kodebog

Method records, population and sample overviews

Bilag 7_FTS2010_metodedokumentation (inkl stik_pop)

Bilag 8_FTS2015_metodedokumentation