Change to Swedish bricks

Our data provider Swedish Pharma Insights is adjusting the Swedish brick model. The new bricks are based solely on postal codes. Previously it was a combination of postal codes and municipalities. This makes it much easier for you to combine sales data with other data. The number structure also changes, so that the region number is nested in the brick number. Please find a detailed guide on the support page after login.

We are also happy to announce the introduction of minibricks in Sweden. Minibricks are an even finer geographical classification than the well know Brick structure. With minibricks sales is divided in 301 minibricks. Especially companies focusing on the primary sector will benefit from minibricks. Nordic minibricks can be provided for Denmark and Sweden only.

Norwegian structure reform

From January 1, 2020, new official regions have been established in Norway. The number of counties (fylker/amt) has been reduced from 19 to 11, and the number of municipalities has been reduced from 430 to 356. This is done by merging counties and municipalities into larger units.

Our data supplier Farmastat has chosen to use the old regional system for the time being, but at the same time work to uncover the consequences this has for our brick structure. Our customers have for the moment signalled requests to keep the old structure, but we will at some point use the new regions to maintain a good connection with other geographical keys. Contact Farmastat if you need more information regarding this reform.

Are you a mobile user?

Nordic Pharma Insights enables you to use a Qlik Sense app for working with your data. This is the authentication link to be used in the Qlik Sense app: authentication link.

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