Accessibility and clarity

Release calendar

The publication date appears in the release calendar. The date is confirmed in the weeks before.

Release calendar access

The Release Calender can be accessed on our English website: Release Calender.

User access

Statistics are always published at 8:00 a.m. at the day announced in the release calendar. No one outside of Statistics Denmark can access the statistics before they are published.

News release

The preliminary figures are published in "Nyt from Statistics Denmark." In "Nyt," the main items of the balance of payments are published monthly.

Publications

The balance of payments figures are included in the digital edition of the Statistical Ten-Year Overview.

On-line database

The statistics are published in the StatBank under the subjects Balance of Payments and International Trade in the following tables:

• BBM: Balance of payments monthly by items, receipts/expenditure, country, unit, seasonal adjustment and time
• VBBM: Versionstable BBM - Balance of payments monthly by version, items, receipts/expenditure, country, unit, seasonal adjustment and time
• BBQ: Balance of payments quaterly by items, receipts/expenditure, country and time
• VBBQ: Versionstable BBQ - Balance of payments quaterly by version, items, receipts/expenditure, country and time
• BBY: Balance of payments yearly by items, receipts/expenditure, country and time
• BBUHV: Transition tabel for by items between foreign trade and balance of payments by items, receipts/expenditure, country and time
• VBBUHV: Versionstable BBUHV - Transition tabel for by items between foreign trade and b by version, items, receipts/expenditure, country and time
• BB2UHV: Corrections in goods between foreign trade and balance of payments by submission of goods, items, imports and exports, country and time
• UHM: External trade monthly by items, imports and exports, country, unit, seasonal adjustment and time
• VUHM: Versionstable UHM - External trade monthly by version, items, imports and exports, country, unit, seasonal adjustment and time
• UHQ: External trade quarterly by items, imports and exports, country, seasonal adjustment and time
• VUHQ: Versionstable UHQ - External trade quarterly by version, items, imports and exports, country, seasonal adjustment and time
• GLOB: Danish manufacturing companies' international production by items, imports and exports, country and time
• UHFASTP1: External trade in 2015-prices monthly (experimental statistics) by items, imports and exports, price unit, seasonal adjustment and time

Micro-data access

Since the compilation of the balance of payments is based on other sources, there is no collection of microdata. Access to microdata must occur through the source statistics.

Other

The statistics are included in the compilation of the national accounts and are also submitted to the OECD, the EU, the European Central Bank, and the IMF.

Confidentiality - policy

The balance of payments inherits the confidentiality policy underlying the source statistics and therefore does not publish data that cannot be published in the source statistics for confidentiality reasons. Data Confidentiality Policy for Statistics Denmark.

Confidentiality - data treatment

If data is confidential in the source statistics, the publication in the balance of payments will be made so that it is not possible to deduce information about confidential data from other figures and sums. This may mean that other data that would not otherwise have been confidential is follow-disclosed.

Documentation on methodology

In the IMF’s Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual the method for compiling the balance of payments is described.

Quality documentation

Results from the quality evaluation of products and selected processes are available in detail for each statistics and in summary reports for the Working Group on Quality.