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Every tenth person relying on minimum social security

Press release No. 458 / 2009-11-30  As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), 8.1 million people in Germany received transfer payments of minimum social security systems at the end of 2007. This means that almost every tenth person (9.8%) living in Germany had to rely on financial support from the government to secure his or her livelihood. A total of Euro 41.6 billion were spent to finance such social benefits in 2007.

Industrial investment in tangible fixed assets amounting to more than Euro 60 billion in 2008

Press release No. 459 / 2009-11-30  In 2008, that is before the current economic crisis started to exert its full effect on short-term economic activity in manufacturing, German industrial enterprises with 20 or more persons employed invested about Euro 60.7 billion in tangible fixed assets. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was an increase of Euro 4.2 billion on 2007 (+7.4%). As is shown by the infra-annual results of national accounting, investment activity declined markedly as early as in the fourth quarter of 2008. That trend became even more pronounced in the first quarter of 2009, which will be reflected in the results of the 2009 survey of investments.


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Newly published: Commuters – Majority still going by car

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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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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.

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.
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Economic and Financial Data for Germany

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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.

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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