Statistics Denmark is data controller of the processing of data in connection with the labour force survey.
Statistics Denmark has the following contact information:
Statistics Denmark
Sankt Kjelds Plads 11
2100 Copenhagen
dst@dst.dk
CVR – 17150413
Phone +45 39 17 39 17
If you need to include sensitive or confidential personal data in your enquiry, we encourage you to send your enquiry to us via Digital Post. To do so, log in at Digital Post and select Statistics Denmark as receiver from the list of government agencies. You can also send us a letter.
Statistics Denmark has appointed a DPO who gives us advice, for example on how to process data about you properly and in compliance with data protection rules regarding personal data.
You can contact our DPO at databeskyttelse@dst.dk or tel. +45 39 17 39 95.
If you need to include sensitive or confidential personal data in your enquiry, we encourage you to send your enquiry to us via Digital Post. To do so, log in at Digital Post and select Statistics Denmark as receiver from the list of government agencies. You can also send us a letter.
Statistics Denmark processes data on you in connection with the labour force survey to show the population’s attachment to the labour market in statistics.
The survey is carried out in all EU countries and the findings are used internationally by organisations such as the EU, OECD and ILO. On a national level, research scientists, politicians, ministries, professional and industrial bodies and other labour market stakeholders use the results.
Statistics Denmark processes personal data in compliance with the provisions in Act on Statistics Denmark, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Danish Data Protection Act.
The legal basis for Statistics Denmark’s processing of personal data for statistical purposes is article 6(1)(e) of the General Data Protection Regulation and section 11(1) of the Danish Data Protection Act.
When you have been invited to participate in a survey, it is up to you if you want to participate. If you choose to participate in the survey, you provide a series of answers about your attachment to the labour market.
In addition, we use publicly available registers of telephone numbers in the attempt to contact you by telephone.
Data that we receive from others
The selection of you as a possible participant in the survey, is based on a randomised data extraction from the civil registration system (CPR).
In our attempt to contact you, it is possible that we have made contact instead with another individual from your household who has answered questions about your attachment to the labour market (proxy interview).
In connection with the labour force survey, Statistics Denmark collects data subject to article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulation. This could be data as to whether you are working, at what time of day you are working, which education you have and which courses you have attended.
Selected employees at Statistics Denmark, Epinion and Norstat who are working with the labour force survey will have access to personal data related to the labour force survey. An employee only has access for as long as it is necessary.
Statistics Denmark may disclose data about you to others who produce statistical or scientific surveys via our microdata schemes. In this case, the data will be pseudonymised so that it cannot be traced to an identifiable individual.
According to article 11 of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2240/2019 (Regulation), Statistics Denmark must send pseudonymised microdata to Eurostat on a quarterly basis. This happens via a secure connection. Eurostat uses the data to publish statistics at an aggregate level and – provided that both the institution and the project are approved – the data may be used for scientific purposes.
The data may be transferred to the Danish National Archives under rules laid down in the legislation relating to archives and records management.
Data that we collect for the purpose of producing the labour force survey is not deleted. This is so because we must be able to produce statistics showing developments and changes over time. The data is stored for production of time series.
In the case of processing of personal data about you for statistical and scientific purposes, you cannot assert your right of access, right to rectification, erasure, restriction or objection.
This is because section 22(5) of the Data Protection Act stipulates that articles 15 (right of access), 16 (right to rectification), 18 (right to restriction of processing) and 21 (right to objection) of the regulation do not apply if the data is processed solely for scientific or statistical purposes.
Article 17 of the regulation regarding the right to erasure does not apply to the extent that the processing is necessary for statistical purposes, cf. article 17(3)(d).
The right to data portability (the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format) in article 20 of the regulation does not apply, as the right can only be asserted when the processing is made automatically and is based on consent or a contract. The processing of personal data is in pursuance of the regulation’s article 6(1)(e) on the performance of a task in the public interest or falling within the exercise of public authority imposed on the data controller, in which case the right to data portability is thus not applicable.
If you believe that Statistics Denmark’s processing of personal data about you is not carried out in compliance with the data protection rules, you can file a complaint to the Danish Data Protection Agency.
