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Producer prices February 2010: –2.9% on February 2009

Press release No. 108 / 2010-03-19 
Larger view of the chart Producer Price Index
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the index of producer prices for industrial products (domestic sales) for Germany fell by 2.9% in February 2010 from the corresponding month of the preceding year. In January 2010 and December 2009, the annual rates of change were –3.4%, respectively.

1.3 billion litres of wine imported into Germany

Press release No. 109 / 2010-03-19  The volume of wine imports into Germany increased slightly in 2009 on 2008 while, at the same time, a decline was recorded in the value of wine imports. As is shown by provisional results of the foreign trade statistics of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ), Germany imported 1.3 billion litres of wine to the value of Euro 1.5 billion last year. This was an increase of 16 million litres (+1.3%) compared to 2008. At the same time, the value of those imports declined by Euro 85 million (–5.2%).

5.0% less turnover in the crafts sector in the year 2009

Press release No. 110 / 2010-03-19 
Larger view of the chart employees and turnover in the compulsory approval crafts sector
As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in the year 2009 the turnover in crafts with compulsory approval was down 5.0% compared to the year 2008. At the same time, the number of persons employed by crafts entrepreneurs in the year 2009 was down 1.5% compared to the level a year earlier.


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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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