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Archives

The statistics contain data on the Danish archives' conventional collections' size and the accession of records, number of visitors in the reading rooms and number of queries via letters or email. Additionally, manpower is listed by the number of full-time employees, distributed by regular employees, voluntary employees and subsidized employees. For the national archives, the electronic collections' size and homepage visits are also included.

Data description

An archive collects, registers and preserves archive material such as documents, photographs, films, maps etc. from a defined local area such as one or more parishes, a city or an entire municipality. The statistic contain information about the activities in the archives. For example, there is information about the size of the collections, archives received, visitors, employees, etc. The statistics illuminate the activity at the state archives, the member archives of the Organization of Danish Archives (ODA) and the City and Local Archives (SLA) and a few larger archives.

There may be a discrepancy between changes in the size of the collection and the growth in the form of received archives. This may be due to cleaning up the archives. Fluctuations may occur in the number of guests for a region, for example, if an archive has not been active for a period due to relocation, restructuring or the like.

Classification system

Key figures are distributed geographically by different units.

Sector coverage

The archives are primarily in the public administration and management sector.

Statistical concepts and definitions

Visits to the National Archives' homepage: The number of times through the year a person has visited the National Archives' homepage.

Total Size of Electronic Holdings: Total size of electronic holdings; digital holdings measured in gigabytes by the end of the year.

Employees, Regular: Employees whose work is paid. The employment is not limited to a specific period and the employee is obliged to perform the given work. Permanent employees are calculated in number of man-years based on the total number of hours worked by the employees during the year.

Employees, Volunteers: Number of employees whose work is unpaid and non-binding, calculated in the number of full-time equivalents calculated on the basis of the total number of working hours during the year.

Number of Physical Visitors: The number of individuals to the archive's reading room during the year.

Employees, Subsidized: Number of FTE calculated based on the total number of hours that employees in employment schemes (job training, etc.) have worked during the year.

Accessed Records: Conventional records that the archive has included in its collections during the year - measured in meters.

Size of holdings: Total size of holdings measured in meters at the end of the year (documents, pictures, books etc.).

Accessed Electronic Records: Digital records that archive has included in its collection during the year - measured in gigabytes.

Statistical unit

the national archives and local archives.

Statistical population

The statistics cover the National Archives, member of the organizations ODA (Danish Archives Organization) and SLA (Federation of Local Archives), as well as a number of bigger archives that are not members of ODA or SLA.

Reference area

Denmark.

Time coverage

The statistics cover the period from 2007 and onwards; for town and local archives, the time series start in 2011.

Base period

Not relevant for this statistic.

Unit of measure

Size of holdings and accessed records are measured in meters shelf space. Electronic records are measured in gigabytes. Guests, enquiries and visitors are measured in numbers. Employees are measured in full time equivalents.

Reference period

The variable "size of holdings" is a status number, which is determined by December 31 of the respective year. All other variables include the activity or the use that has taken place during the year in question.

Frequency of dissemination

Annual.

Legal acts and other agreements

Data collection is not conducted on the basis of EU Regulation or other regulation. Data is supplied voluntarily according to agreement from another public authority and through the main archive organizations.

Cost and burden

Response burden for the National Archives is zero, since all information is derived from registers. Data collection for the town and local archives is performed by ODA/SLA. No estimates of response burden have been made, but the data collection involves around 500 archives reporting around 10 values each.

Comment

Further information can be found at subject page for Archives or by contacting Statistics Denmark directly.