The aim of the register

The register aims to produce statistics that shed light on the structure and development of unemployment in the population based on the Central Register of Labour Market Statistics (CRAM).

Responsible authority

Statistics Denmark

Contact person

Carsten Bo Nielsen, tel: +45 3917 3245, email: can@dst.dk

Population

Recipients of unemployment benefits and unemployed people receiving cash benefits

Variables

For persons who meet the above requirements, CRAM contains information on:
- Reason for cancelling (i.e. the person’s insurance status on the final day of the period in question), Unemployment insurance fund (the unemployment insurance fund of which the person is a member at the end of the period in question), Unemployment insurance fund unit, Age, Local municipality, Marital status (widow/widower, divorced, married, unmarried), Civil. reg. no., Early retirement pension registration (registration of whether the person received early retirement pension or not at the end of the period in question), Insurance category (full-time insurance, part-time insurance, no insurance), Insured work hours (number of insured or possible work hours per week), Geography (municipality, county, region), Quarterly hours unemployed (number of hours the person was unemployed during the quarter), Quarterly unemployment rate (the relationship between the number of hours the person was unemployed and the number of insured/possible work hours during the quarter), Gender (M/F), Cause of unemployment (weather conditions, work-sharing, employed with AF holidays, unemployed with AF holidays, AF holidays etc, unemployed with income support), Indication of unemployment (Indication of unemployment during the week before the period in question), Monthly unemployment rate (the relationship between the number of hours the person was unemployed and and the number of insured/possible working hours during the month), Monthly number of hours unemployed (the number of hours the person was unemployed during the month), Nationality code (the person’s nationality at the end of the period in question), Period number (can be related to the quarter (1-4), month (1-12) or week (1-53)), Reference year (the year of reference including 12 monthly periods of unemployment benefits that are displaced relative to calendar year), Annual number of hours unemployed (the number of hours the person was unemployed during the year), Annual unemployment rate (the relationship between the number of hours the person was unemployed and and the number of insured/possible working hours during the year).

Accessing the data

Contact Statistics Denmark

Updates

Monthly, quarterly, annual

Source

The Central Register of Labour Market Statistics (CRAM) by the National Labour Market Authority

Period covered

1979-

References

The publication “Nyt fra Danmarks Statistik” (News from Statistics Denmark), the “Arbejdsmarked” series in the publication “Statistiske Efterretninger” (Statistical News), the publication “Konjunkturstatistik” and StatBank Denmark.
Annual publications: Statistical Yearbook and Statistical Ten-Year Review.
In the “Arbejdsmarked” series of the publication “Statistiske Efterretninger” (Statistical News), 2001:12, you can find a detailed description of the methods and definitions used in the unemployment statistics.