Price Policy
Isak Isaksen
Danmarks Statistik
General principles
• Customers should cover all cost
• No profit when your are a
monopolist
• If your are in a competition there no
problem with a profit
• No cross subsidy
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What cost should be covered?
• Payment by hour
• All former for overhead ( 93 %)
• Cost in connection with developing
of new products
• Cost in connection with
improvement of data and registers
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Price model in Denmark
• Tailor-made data
• Payment by hour (105 euro)
• Payment by use of register
– Type of register
– Number of variables
– Number of years
– Number of cells
– Geography
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Type of register
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Authority register (free of charge)
Mixed register
Service register
Mixed and service register have a
varying price
• Yearly calculation of use of the
different register for service
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Copyright
• Copyright is included in our contractsystem
• Resale to other customers is not allowed
without and agreement with Statistics
Denmark
• Customer pay the same price if they buy
the data through a resale operator
• The resale operator get a provision
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