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Date: July 10, 2024 The role of official statistics in shaping the future - Opportunities from the data producer's perspective

The times when official statistics had a monopoly on statistical facts are over. Due to digitalisation, we are instead confronted with an exponentially growing volume of data. New data and new data providers are constantly emerging. This article …

Press release No. N068 of 24 November 2022 Podcast on skilled labour shortage: what is the situation of vocational training in Germany?

Many businesses in Germany complain about a shortage of junior staff. What is the situation of vocational training in our country? What has changed, not least because of the Covid-19 pandemic? What occupations do young people choose today - and why? …

Date: December 19, 2022 An informational infrastructure has emerged in Germany - the Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office

...The information infrastructure in Germany has progressed significantly since the end of the 1990s although the Covid-19 crisis has shown recently that it still has considerable deficits. The insight that individual data have a value and the demand for official microdata on the part of empirical researchers led to the establishment of the Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office in 2001. ...

Press release No. 522 of 8 December 2022 Economic Pulse Monitor permits real-time economic monitoring

...By combining official short-term indicators with high-frequency non-official data from institutes and other providers, the Economic Pulse Monitor enables the economic situation in Germany to be quickly assessed – it is always up to date and available any time in the Dashboard Germany (only in german) (www.dashboard-deutschland.de)....

Press release No. N 072 of 20 December 2022 Christmas facts

...Official statistics, however, do not record the number of Christmas trees grown in Germany....

Press release No. N035 of 27 May 2021 The youngest municipality in Germany has an average age of 27.7 years

...In contrast, 59% of the 130 inhabitants of Nieby were 65 years or older. Using the new Regional Atlas for Germany, it is now even easier to make such supraregional comparisons – especially at municipality level....

Date: August 15, 2022 Why we need a national competence centre for data literacy

...However, transparency is still insufficient regarding the multitude of projects, initiatives and offers that have been initiated in the last few years and that are aimed at promoting data literacy in Germany. This is why establishing a national competence centre for data literacy is urgently recommended. The purpose of that centre would be to ensure coordinated establishment and extension of the measures and offers aimed at promoting data literacy. ...

Press release No. 532 of 15 December 2022 Ruth Brand to become President of the Federal Statistical Office

...Georg Thiel for what he has achieved in restructuring the Office and for his services to official statistics in Germany." The new President of the Federal Statistical Office will also become Federal Returning Officer Besides her role as President of the Federal Statistical Office, Ruth Brand will also assume the position of Federal Returning Officer. ...

Date: October 17, 2022 Official Statistics Peer Reviews 2021 to 2023

Procedure for and evaluation of the peer review conducted in December 2021 at the Federal Statistical Office.

In 2021, the Federal Statistical Office participated for the third time in the peer review held at regular intervals by the Statistical …

Date: June 17, 2022 Responsiveness of official statistics in times of crisis

...It also focuses on measures aimed at enhancing flexibility in statistics production and describes how the statistical institutes in Germany and Europe cooperate in these times of crisis. Authors: Daniel Vorgrimler, Jörg Decker Article published in "WISTA – Scientific Journal", 3-2022...