Federal Statistical Office of Germany
The Federal Statistical Office (often abbreviated Destatis ) is a German federal authority within the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. It collects, collects and analyzes statistical information on the economy, society and environment. The processed information is updated daily published in around 390 Statistics.
President of the Federal Statistical Office since 1 August 2008, the former Director of the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Roderich egeler.
History
On January 21, 1948, the Statistical Office of the United Economic Area Bizonia was created ( U.S. and British occupation zone in postwar Germany ). After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Statistical Office of the bizone was transferred to the official organization of the federal government. On April 1, 1950, the statistics office acquired its current name Federal Statistical Office.
The Federal Statistical Office in Germany therefore stands as a newly created authority after the Second World War in the tradition of the Imperial Statistical Office and the Reich Statistical Office.
Board of Directors
The President of the Federal Statistical Office are traditionally Anyway Federal Returning Officer.
Locations
Headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, the Federal Statistical Office (1850 employees) and a branch office in Bonn (620 employees). Furthermore, the Federal Office operates a so-called i- point in the German capital Berlin (23 employees) and there informed members of the German Bundestag, the federal government, embassies and federal agencies, business associations and interested parties from the Berlin- Brandenburg. Overall, the Federal Statistical Office has approximately 2,800 employees.
In Wiesbaden, the Federal Statistical Office operates the largest specialist library for statistics in Germany.
Tasks
The responsibilities of the Federal Statistical Office includes the provision of objective, high-quality and independent information on politics, government, administration, economy and citizens. Furthermore, it is responsible for the methodological and technical preparation of a variety of statistics and ensures that these coordinates are created on time according to uniform methods and. To this end, the Federal Statistical Office operates in accordance with the federal structure of the Federal Republic of Germany in close cooperation with the statistical offices of the 16 countries.
Legal basis
The obligation to objectivity, neutrality and scientific independence and the responsibilities of the Federal Statistical Office and the rules on statistical confidentiality are regulated by the Law on Statistics for Federal Purposes.
In addition, each official statistics for the execution and publication of a legal basis, usually requires a law or ordinance.
Copyright, use of the data
Since 1 January 2006 the use of the statistics of the Federal Office is lizenz-/gebührenfrei. This was analogous to the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat ), which took this step on 1 October 2004. The commercial use of the data of the Federal Office is now permitted without license fees - it applies to any kind of distribution of data, graphs and charts - as far as the Federal Statistical Office is the owner of the copyright has the sole publisher and rights.
The standard publications of the Federal Statistical Office, are characterized by the following copyright notice: "Reproduction and distribution, also of parts, are permitted, provided the source "
This excludes use of third party rights that are specifically identified in the works of the Federal Statistical Office.
The cost of freedom from 1 January 2006 also applies to the use of data from previously published standard publications of the Federal Statistical Office, even if they still carry a different opinion.
Further dissemination of the data of the Federal Office from January 1, 2006 due to the inclusion of an appropriate reference to the source data used: "Source: Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden. [Title and date of issue ] "
Exceptions to the above provisions, include information that is under the joint editor of the Statistical Offices of Community Federation and the Länder. For this still is the copyright permission for collecting and there are royalties to be paid.
Topics
The Federal Statistical Office publishes statistics on the following topics:
- Administration of justice
- Building and Housing
- Environment
- Agriculture and Forestry
- Manufacturing industries and crafts
- Domestic Trade, hospitality, tourism
- Traffic
- Money, Credit and Services
- Foreign trade
- Company and Commercial Listings
- Prices
- Wages and salaries
- Household budget and time budget
- Finance and Taxes
- National accounts
Publications
The Federal Statistical Office published various books and magazines:
- Every year, the Statistical Yearbook is published. Since 2006, all volumes of the Yearbook are available free for download on the Internet.
- Since 1949, the Journal of Economics and Statistics is published monthly. Scientific articles on methods, classifications and other basic questions of the statistical program will be published in it. It contains, as part of the table, the collection of the last Statistical weekly reports. She is since 2001 a free download available on the internet.
- In addition Statistical weekly reports are published, which are also free for download.
Others
Destatis works with the 14 (May 2013) statistical offices that exist at the provincial level. Two states work together:
- Statistical Office of Hamburg and Schleswig -Holstein
- Amt für Statistik Berlin -Brandenburg
List of the 14 departments in the article Statistical Office.