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The statistics serve public administrators, researchers, analysts, journalists, and citizens for forecasting, analysis, and planning. The underlying data supports most personal statistics at Statistics Denmark and forms the basis for education tables in the Statbank. The statistics document student intake, departure, and transitions between classes or programs within the Danish education system, underpinning many education-related tables in the Statistics Denmark databank.
User Needs
Users are multiple and varied. The statistics form the basis of many of the education tables in Statistics Denmark database and are often used in connection with external service tasks ordered by government bodies, municipalities, research institutions, NGOs, private companies, individuals and not least to inquiries from the press.
The basic data is used in more than 2000 research projects every year, where scientist and researchers gain access to the data via the Research Services department of Statistics Denmark.
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Higher Education and Science receive the basic data and the Student Register that are used for planning purposes, analyses, prognoses and moreover.
User Satisfaction
In working with the education statistics, the users are involved as much as possible. Some users can be instrumental in ensuring that the data from the schools has a high quality. Other users can provide inspiration for new statistics and analyses. Finally, through user involvement we find inspiration for the development of methods and models that contribute to the continued improvement of statistics.
Data completeness rate
The statistics fulfill the demands by EU regulation number 452/2008 regarding the enrollment of students, graduates, exams, foreign language and class size. The Department of Economical Statistics is responsible for the statistics regarding cost. The statistics regarding staff is collected by the Ministry of Education and is not published presently.