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Denmark leads the way on statistics using microdata

When it comes to statistics, Denmark is leading the way in the Nordics as well as internationally. Half a century of data-gathering from personal information registers provides detailed statistics about Danes and their working lives.
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Statistics Denmark
  • The central authority for statistics in Denmark.
  • Reports to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Interior.
  • Gathers, processes and publishes statistics on Danish society. 
  • Employs some 550 people.

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The CPR register

Short for the Central Civil Register.

  • The system was introduced in 1968 in Denmark and in 1972 in Greenland. People living in the Faroe Islands are not part of the CPR.
  • All Danish citizens and people with permission to stay in Denmark are given a 10 digit  CPR number, which acts as a personal ID number.
  • The CPR registry contains a lot of other personal information beyond the ID number – like your name, address, birth information, family information, civil status, citizenship and gender. Since 2014 people who want to change gender have been able to change their CPR number.

Source: Statistics Denmark

Niels Ploug

Director of social statistics at Statistics Denmark

Used to be head of research at SFI, the Danish National Centre for Social Research, now VIVE, The Danish Center for Social Science Research   

He has also held a range of international positions, including:

Head of ESSnet on Quality of Multisource Statistics 

Head of the UN Global Working Group on Big Data

OECD Global Science Forum initiative on Data and Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences

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