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January 2010: Number of persons employed in manufacturing decreasing by 4.9%

Press release No. 100 / 2010-03-15  At the end of January 2010, just over 4.9 million persons worked in local units of manufacturing with 50 or more persons employed in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional results, that was about 251,500 persons or 4.9% less than in January 2009. The number of hours worked in January 2010 decreased by 4.9% from a year earlier, reaching 591 million.

Sales of sparkling wine in 2009 up 0.9%

Press release No. 101 / 2010-03-15  As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), Germany-based enterprises sold 340.0 million litres of sparkling wine in 2008, that is 1.7% more than in the previous year. Sales include both sparkling wine produced in the country and imported foreign products (for instance champagne).

4.5% of the students at private institutions of higher education

Press release No. 102 / 2010-03-15  Although the share of students at private institutions of higher education in all students is at a relatively low level in Germany today, it has markedly increased in the last few years. According to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ), 96,100 of the total of 2,119,500 students in Germany were enrolled at an officially recognised private institution of higher education in winter semester 2009/10. That is a share of 4.5% of all students. In winter semester 2000/01 the share was 1.4%.


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Most striking price changes in February 2010

Here you find products with especially remarkable price changes in February 2010 compared to February 2009.


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Newly published: Car, bus and railway: Mobility has its price

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Walking to the bank? Taking the bus to go to work? Going shopping by car? And taking the train to visit friends? Consumers in Germany spend a considerable part of their expenditure budget on being mobile. In 2005, the base year of consumer price statistics, consumption expenditure on car, bus and railway accounted for some 13% of total consumption expenditure of households. The prices of purchasing a car, petrol, bus tickets, railway tickets and many other items of "transport" in 2009 were an average 8.3% higher than in 2005. The whole consumer price index, covering the total consumption expenditure of households in Germany, rose by just 7.0% in the same period. More information on our latest STATmagazin.

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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