Register
on Population Statistics
The basis
for the population statistics is Statistics Greenland’s Population register.
Information in this register is retrieved from the Danish civil registration
system (CPR).
Status
statements relate to persons who resided in the country per January 1st. The
residence criterion is described by the Danish Home Office in 'Guidance on
registration of residence in population registers and civil registration'.
Delays
in reporting
Births,
deaths, moving’s, etc. are supposed to be reported no later than 5 days after
an incident. But some reports are delayed. When calculating the statistics we
take this into account and await the delayed reports. There is no time-limit
for reporting or correcting information in the system.
Migrations
Information
on each incident is reported by the municipal authority, who records
information when it comes to their knowledge. Not all people who move are aware
of deadlines and their duty to report. When we look at how much time elapses
between an incident and when it is reported, we can see that about 60 percent
of all immigration and emigration were recorded within the first week.
Number
of days between incident and report, 2019
|
Immigrants |
Emigrants |
90 pct. |
68 days |
43 days |
95 pct. |
130 days |
126 days |
99 pct. |
222 days |
307 days |
To provide current statistics to our users, we
only wait one calendar month after the status date
To make it
simple, migrations are counted only if there are less than 5 years (1,825 days)
between the incident and reporting. None of the migrations where reported that
late in 2019.
Information
from the Danish CPR-system
The
Population Statistics Register holds only selected information from the CPR
system. It includes no information on a person’s attachment to the national
church or his name.
The
received basic information are sought for errors. Information on sex and age
are derived directly from the person number, which only in isolated cases are
erroneous. These errors are typically corrected within the child's first year.
The
locality code is extracted from the register address information. There is
generally more uncertainty associated with this information, because there are
differences in how the addresses are entered in the registers. From 2009 a
location code has been defined to every address, and is used unchanged in the
processing and dissemination of statistics. The location code is defined by Asiaq (www.asiaq.gl) and an unofficial rule of thumb
indicates that "a locality may not be further apart than one can live and
have daily work within the locality."