Relevance

User Needs

Among users are politicians, ministries, interest groups, businessmen, researchers, major private companies and others interested in the development of the Danish labour market. The areas of application are mainly the National Accounts, economic models, economic government departments and labour market organizations.

User Satisfaction

When major revisions are released, the changes are described in Documentation of statistics and in potential more comprehensive notes available at the website. In addition users are oriented about the background for the changes, when the changes are put into force, and the reference period the changes are related to, as early as possible in the process via user committees (user committee for labour market statistics and user committee for economic statistics), in the forum of short term statistics and on interest group meetings. In addition, revisions of the Working Time Accounts are discussed and coordinated with the national accounts.

User Committee for Labour Market Statistics includes the areas employment, unemployment, wage subsidies jobs, earning statistics and statistics on absence. The user committee hold meetings once or twice a year to ensure running contact and dialog on the scope of statistics, developments, quality and communication. The members of the committees are important users of the products of Statistics Denmark within the subject areas of the user committee.

The User Committee for Economic Statistics covers the topics national accounts, public finances, short term statistics, external economy, globalization, employment, prices, consumption and financial statistics. The committee normally holds meetings in June and December. At these meetings the revisions of the Working Time Accounts have generally been embraced, as no users have doubted that the quality of the WTA has been improved significantly. However, the data breaks been more difficult for the users to deal with. Especially for the national accounts and its users and for the Productivity Commission has the restructuring to using the eIncome statistics - especially with the very significant drop in the levels of hours worked - has given rise to much frustration and additional work load.

Data completeness rate

Up to now the delimitation of data supplies from the Working Time Account to the short-term business statistics (STS) has only been the sector group “business enterprises and organizations, i.e. exclusive of “general government sector”. In other words, the population in the short-term business statistics is for the time being greater than the market share of the economy, which is covered by the Regulation, as sector code 89: Non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) is not excluded from the data deliveries from the Working Time Account.