Comments on the statistics

The numbers of commuters across the Öresund Bridge are counted as the number of full-time commuters, that is, persons who commute five times a week between their homes and places of work. This definition has been chosen because it is based on the number of trips across the Öresund Bridge by either car or train, since there are no statistics compiled for commuter travel frequency. Historically, this method of calculation provides results very near to the register-based commuting statistics compiled by Statistics Denmark and Statistics Sweden, which are not released until about two years after the time of measurement. The register-based commuting statistics for Öresund follow the same definition used to describe the commuting between municipalities in both Denmark and Sweden. The commuting between Elsingore-Helsingborg is an estimate based on the register-based
commuting statistics.