Comparability

Comparability - geographical

The statistics are not directly comparable to any international statistics because the services included in the statistics are defined by Danish law.

Comparability over time

The statistics were published for the first time for a whole year for 2023 and are comparable to the published data for the following years. As of 1 July 2025, the 'Kravspecifikation' has been updated to reflect revisions to the sections used. Some sections have been discontinued, while new sections have been introduced with effect from 1 July 2025. See section 2.2, Groupings and Classifications. In some cases, however, the new sections are being used for assistive products prior to 1 July 2025, and in other cases reporting is still being carried out under the discontinued sections

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing launched a pilot project in 2017, the aim of which was to collect information on people who are registered in the municipalities' assistive technology systems. The experiences from this project were so good that the ministry initiated permanent statistics on assistive products from 2021, when it was voluntary for the municipalities to report data. From 1st of July 2022, it became mandatory for the municipalities to report to the statistics. Data from the previous projects have not been published.

Coherence - cross domain

Statistics Denmark is not aware of other statistics in this area

Coherence - internal

It is estimated the internal consistency of the data is high. However, there may be a difference between the municipalities' registrations of assistive products and which products the municipalities register and send to Statistics Denmark. Some municipalities, for example, include assistive products according to legal sections that are not listed in the requirement specification. Some include fictitious assistive products and products with fictitious social security numbers in the data. However, invalid social security numbers are excluded from the published data.

The final data include data at an individual level and include all assistive products that have been active the first of July 2022 and the citizens with these assistive products. In the StatBank the number of citizens with an active assistive product and the assistive products of the citizens are calculated at the end of the year. This is done in order to be able to put the number of citizens in relation to the total population which makes it possible to compare municipalities.