In these publications, the focus is on welfare benefits which replace, or is a supplement to other income. These benefits are given to persons who lose income due to a social event, whether this is unemployment, disease, age etc.

There is a series of pronounced differences between the different types of benefits which aim to replace other lost income. Legislation and criteria for granting benefits etc. has been described in detail for each grant in the publications.

Calculations have been made through extraction of data from Municipal IT-systems. The link below comprises different publications on social statistics being processed. The different statistics are limited to distribution of beneficiaries based on sex, age and municipality.

Responsible Statistical Advisor: Nauja Rosing