Producer prices October 2009: –7.6% on October 2008

Press release No. 441 / 2009-11-20  As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the index of producer prices for industrial products (domestic sales) for Germany fell by 7.6% in October 2009 from the corresponding month of the preceding year. In September 2009, the annual rate of change was –7.6% too.

Day care for children under 3 years: 275,000 places to be created by 2013

Press release No. 442 / 2009-11-20  In Germany some 275,000 additional places for children under three years will be needed by 2013 in order to be able to offer day care for 35% of the children under three years all over Germany. This is shown by a model calculation by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), which is based on the results of the 2009 statistics of day care for children and the results of the 12th co-ordinated with the statistical offices of the Länder population projection of the Federal Statistical Office that were presented 2 days ago.

41.8 million surgeries and medical procedures performed on in-patients in 2008

Press release No. 443 / 2009-11-20  As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), about 41.8 million surgeries and medical procedures were performed on patients discharged from hospital after full in-patient treatment in 2008. The figure is 5.2% higher than in 2007. Every hospital case thus accounted for an average 2.5 measures of that kind.

Federal Statistical Office grants 2009 Gerhard Fürst Award

Press release No. 444 / 2009-11-20  For his diploma dissertation on “The influence of body height on wage level and choice of occupation: Current state of research and recent results based on the microcensus”, economist Fabian Spanhel of Ludwig Maximilians University Munich has been granted the 2009 Gerhard Fürst Award. For the eleventh time now, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has granted that scientific award for outstanding scientific projects. The relevant award money is Euro 2,500.

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Newly published: Commuters: Majority still going by car

Many commuters have to spend a lot of time on travelling to their place of work, in addition to their working hours. Are persons in employment getting more willing to be mobile as a result of the changes on the labour market? Is the preferred choice of transport changing in view of rising fuel prices? The discussion about measures to be taken against climate change is certainly one of the reasons why such questions are highly topical. Answers are given by the results of an additional programme of the microcensus on transport patterns of commuters, which is covered every four years and last time in 2008. More information on our latest STATmagazin.

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New country profile: Russian Federation 2009

A new edition of our publication series of statistical country profiles for all G20 states has been published in the week of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh (24 / 25 September 2009).
The latest profile highlights the Russian Federation from a statistical point of view.
The 7-page publication is available as a free download.

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Hands-on basket of goods – the price kaleidoscope

How does the price trend of a single product influence the index?
With the new price kaleidoscope of the Federal Statistical Office, you will get an overview of the price trends and weights of various product groups in the consumer price index. It allows getting a more intuitive impression of the complex connections.

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New: Statistical Yearbook 2009

Every sixth recipient of parental allowance in Berlin is a man +++ Internet chats used more frequently by men than by women +++ The type of school attended by children depends, among other things, on their parents’ educational attainment +++ Every eighth household cannot afford a full meal every two days +++
Getting curious?
The new Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany will give you a lot of information on social and economic structures in Germany – also in an international context.
more...

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Economic and Financial Data for Germany

The actual data  corresponding to the data described on the International Monetary Fund's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB) is available here. 
For a fuller explanation of the DSBB and the statistical standards to which Germany has committed, please click on DSBB Home Page.

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Interactive Applications

We are offering interaction and communication applications typical of online environments, such as our interactive applications of the Animated population pyramids on the population forecast, the Regional Atlas, the Personal inflation calculator, the Atlas of foreign trade data and the Air transport atlas (some interactive applications only in German). Get an easy overview of complex matters by using the new forms of presentation you can alter as required.

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