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 statistics is published in News from Statistics Denmark:

• "Motorparken
• Newly registered vehicles
• Families' car purchases
• [Families' car availability(https://www.dst.dk/nytserie/230)
• Energy efficiency for newly registered private cars

Publications

• Statistical Ten Year Review, in Danish: Statistical Ten Year Review.

On-line database

Tables in the StatBank of Denmark

• Stock of vehicles,
• New registrations, used car sale, energy efficiency and families with cars etc.

In the Statbank, there are series with:

• monthly new registrations on actual numbers; from and including 1992
• accession of and leasing of new passenger cars; from with 2007
• monthly changes of ownership, re-registrations and used car trading; from and including 2000
• the energy efficiency of newly registered passenger cars; from and including 1997.
• families’ car purchases; from and including 1999
• the families’ access to cars; from and including 1999
• the stocks of vehicles; from and including 1993
• the value of newly registered private cars; from and including 2004

Monthly new registrations seasonally adjusted with X-13 ARIMA (not annualised) from and including 2007 for:

• newly registered private cars in total,
• newly registered private cars in households,
• newly registered private cars in businesses,
• accession of new private cars in total
• accession of new private cars in households, accession of new private cars in businesses

In historical series, monthly new registrations seasonally adjusted with x-13 ARIMA (annualised) 1996:01 – 2015:01 for:

• Private cars in total,
• Private cars in households,
• Private cars in businesses.

Micro-data access

Researchers and other analysts from authorized research institutions, can be granted access to the underlying Micro-data by contacting Research Services.

Other

Other deliveries: Service statistics and special calculations: The car register's data is available to DST Consulting, where it’s used for service tasks for a fee, e.g. regarding market conditions. The users are a wide range of private companies within e.g. the automotive industry, consulting companies and public institutions.

Read more about tailor-made solutions or get more information by contacting DST Consulting. Subscription agreements can be established with the delivery of standard tables or tailor-made tables adapted to very specific needs. Payment for this is made in accordance with Statistics Denmark's service rates. Information on table options and prices can be obtained by contacting Statistics Denmark.

Confidentiality - policy

The general policy of confidentiality in Statistics Denmark is described (in Danish) in Danmarks Statistiks datafortrolighedspolitik.

There is generally no access to data on individual persons or enterprises.

This imply in the field of paid services that it as principal rule won't be possible to combine demographic and geographic data.

Confidentiality - data treatment

Potential discretization problems are taken into account, by not producing statements where discretization problems may occur. In practice, this means that no statements are prepared with combinations of demographic and geographical background variables where individuals or companies can be identified.

Documentation on methodology

Documentation of the car register can be found on the homepage of Statistics Denmark, in Danish: Documentation of the car register.

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.