ESENER-PSR 2009 - European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

5.04 Denmark
Address-source: KOB (Kobmandsstandens Oplysningsbureau)
Type of Source: Commercial address-compilation;
Sources for entries: * CVR, a central company register with compulsory registration
* Information from the registers of the tax-offices
* Registration of employees from Ministry of Labour
Unit: Establishments
Coverage of Sectors: All relevant sectors including Public Administration
Codification of Sectors: NACE Rev 1.1
Comments/Assessment:
Most comprehensive address source for Denmark; National Statistical office of
Denmark bases its business statistics on the registers maintained by KOB
Source for Statistics: KOB
Statistics on establ.: Establishment statistics taken from KOB
Statistics on employees: Available from KOB
Coverage of Sectors: All relevant sectors covered
Codification of Sectors: NACE Rev. 1.1
Size-bands: 10-19, 20-49, 50-99, 100+; no finer breakdown of establishments
with more than 100 employees available
Topicality:
Comments:
For weighting, the number of establishments given for size-class 100+ had to be
further broken down into the size-classes 50 – 249, 250 – 499 and 500+ by estimates
made on base of the “hard” figures on the relative distribution of establishments over
these size-classes given for the other countries
Statistics Denmark provides on its website a statistics of “workplaces”; according to
this statistics (which was used for the ESWT 2004), the total of establishments within
the defined universe is considerably higher than the figures provided by KOB (56.000
vs. 34.000 units). The difference seems to be related to a different interpretation of
“workplace” in these statistics, but it was not possible to doubtlessly clarify this with
Statistics Denmark.
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