Comparability
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Statistics Denmark are not aware of comparable, publicly available, statistics nationally or internationally. Most other statistics are based on questionnaires focusing on the role as relatives or informal caregivers.
These statistics are comparable over time, one does however have to be aware of the coverage of certain relations in the older generation the further back in time one looks.
Comparability - geographical
As to the knowledge of Statistics Denmark, no similar international statistics exist.
Comparability over time
These statistics are comparable over time. On a micro-level some relations might change over time.
Coherence - cross domain
The total population on 1st of January are shown in the StatBank table BEFOLK1.
These statistics are not directly comparable with Statistics Denmark's other family statistics. In the Relative statistics the family relations are independent of the home address and is solely build on CPR information. For Statistics Denmark's other family statisics shared address' are a main driver. An exception from this is linking couples, which in both statistics require a shared home address.
Coherence - internal
There's internal There's internal consistency with exception of the selections described in chapter Statistical processing.