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 Calendar can be accessed on our English website: Release Calen-dar.

User access

Statistics are always published at 08:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar. No one outside Statistics Denmark has access to the statistics prior to publication.

News release

No NYT has been published for this statistic for several years, but a NYT will be published on 27 May 2025.

Publications

None

On-line database

The statistics are published in StatBank under the topic

Social Conditions - Persons below the state pension age on public benefits - Sickness benefits

in the following table

• SYGEDP01: Sickness benefits by municipality, sex, age, benefit recipient and unit

Micro-data access

The Sickness Benefits Statistics Register contains individual-level information for people who have applied for or received benefits from the unemployment benefit system. Micro-data is expected to be available from Q1 2026.

Other

Data are made available to Research Services and DST Consulting.

Confidentiality - policy

Statistics Denmark policy of confidence is respected.

Confidentiality - data treatment

Before data is published in the StatBank, a discretionary procedure is carried out to ensure that no cells with less than three are published or can be recalculated from subtotals.

Documentation on methodology

There are no separate methodological documents for these statistics.

Quality documentation

Documentation on quality management and quality assurance at Statistics Denmark is available in the form of common guidelines and manuals describing the principles and procedures for statistical production. These include descriptions of quality principles documentation requirements and standards for metadata. Relevant aspects are described in the other quality sections of this statistical documentation.