These statistics illustrate households, families and also personal characteristics regarding household and family. New concepts and definitions were introduced in 2008 to replace the previously produced household and family statistics. The concepts in the statistics used up to 2007 are not comparable to the present ones. Files on household and family statistics from 1980 to 2007 have a comparability that is satisfatory on most points, but are not comparable to 2008 and onwards. In www.statbank.dk there are comparable data from 1986 an foreward.

The statistics on households and families describe the total population living in Denmark. Statistics are produced with three different kinds of units: households, families and persons. The statistics describe these units on household and family-related variables (e.g. type of family, size of familiy, type of household). The basis for the statistics consists solely of CPR data on sex, age, martital status, references to spouses and parents, and address specification. The address data form the basis of the division into households, municipalities and regions.

The following variables can be attached to persons:
Sex, age, marital status, municipality and region, type of family, status in family, type of household, number of persons in the family, number of children in the family and in the household, and information on whether the person lives in the same household as his/her father and/or mother.

The following variables can be attached to families:
Municipality and region, type of family, number of persons, and children in the family.

The following variables can be attached to households:
Municipality and region, type of household, number of persons and of children living in parental home.

All information comes from the following webpage : http://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/Declarations/household-and-...