Nordic Marketing Conference of Statistical Products and Services Helsinki, Finland, June 13-15th Workshop 8: Product Development and Access to Individual Data for Research Purposes Statistics Denmark Otto Andersen

Nordic Marketing Conference - Helsinki, Finland Introduction Why are researchers and analysts important to the NSI? How broad a definition? –Research Institutions? –Ministries? –Private companies? –Consultancy firms etc?

Nordic Marketing Conference - Helsinki, Finland The Demand for Data The group demands much more detailed data than other customers Want data linked between different (several) registers and often data the NSI has not worked with in detail Want access to micro data and are only seldom satisfied with tabulations Want data on their own harddiscs

The Nordic Countries – Microdata Off-siteOn-siteOff-lineOn-linePay- roll Denmarknoyes no Finlandyes noyes Icelandyesno Norwayyesno Swedenyesno

Nordic Marketing Conference - Helsinki, Finland The Recent Development (Denmark) Remote Access System Only access to microdata for authorized institutions (125 on 1st June 2005) Grants from the Ministry of Research to run the infrastructure Centralised organisation of Research Services Special computer arrangements only for microdata for research

Nordic Marketing Conference - Helsinki, Finland The Potential? Many research institutions are not aware of the possibilities and have to adjust their research in order to use microdata The potential is very big but how to inform and find the relevant groups? The groups need to be good in computing techniques (SAS, STATA, SPSS etc.)

Nordic Marketing Conference - Helsinki, Finland Discusion State of the art in each country? How to promote the possibilities in an effective way –Internet –Invite to meetings in NSI or meet the researchers at their workplace –Inform about the possibilities –Offer courses in statistics? Pricing