Karl Becker (statistician)

Karl Martin Ludwig Becker ( born October 2, 1823 in Strohausen (Oldenburg ); † June 20, 1896 in Berlin) was a German statistician.

Life

Karl Becker was first Soldier in the Schleswig-Holstein army and participated in the Schleswig-Holstein part of war. After dissolution of the army, he studied at the universities of Göttingen and Berlin Economics and Statistics. He first established the Oldenburg Statistical Bureau, whose director he was in 1855. In 1872 he was appointed director of the newly established Imperial Statistical Office in Berlin. In April 1891, he entered into retirement.

Work

He worked mainly in the field of population statistics. Becker improved the organization of statistical surveys and promoted the publication of results. He based in two offices, a number of book series, the " Statistical News from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg ", " Monatshefte on the statistics of the German Reich " (since 1873 as a quarterly magazine since 1877, Monatshefte ) and the " Statistical Yearbook of the German Reich."

Publications

• For the calculation of life tables to the population statistics as alternate end requirements. Opinion on the question: What documents must obtain the statistics in order to gain correct mortality tables, Berlin: Verlag of the Royal Statistical Bureau Berlin, 1874 ( Göttingen Digitisation Centre )
• The organization of official statistics in the German Reich. Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht. 1883