Employment-Related Classifications in a Register Based Statistical System

Since 1976 employment classifications in Danish statistics have been made to a greater extent on the basis of informations collected from different administrative registers compared to the conventional survey/census method. The start was in 1971 but not until five years later the results were acceptable. The change in collecting method is the necessary basis for linking the unemployment statistics to the employment characteristics. In this paper it is explained how the employment related classifications are constructed from the statistical registers.