Methods and Approaches

Our Methods and Approaches offer comprises both general methodological information and methodological explanations on specific statistics. This offer is free and will gradually be extended.

• General information
  • The Demographic and Regional Standards are based on a joint recommendation of the Arbeitskreis Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforschungsinstitute (ADM) e. V., the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Sozialwissenschaftlicher Institute e. V. (ASI) and the Federal Statistical Office. The purpose of the Demographic Standards is to achieve harmonisation of the socio-structural variables in population surveys (surveys of households or individuals) in order to improve comparability between the results of various surveys. The Regional Standards are designed to consider, in a comparable form, the regional context of surveys at different regional levels. As the microcensus results are often used as reference statistics, the results of special microcensus evaluations are additionally shown in tables with the variables of the Demographic Standards in the table stub and selected regional units of the Regional Standards in the column head.
  • The Methods - Approaches - Development publication provides information on both the current and the planned application of new methods and approaches in official federal statistics. Furthermore, it contains reports on major international trends in official statistics (especially in Europe), activities of statistical bodies and relevant events and also information on recent statistical and methodological reference books.

• Time series Analysis
  • Time series analysis an indispensable tool in monitoring current economic trends.
    Time series analyses with BV4.1 and X-12-ARIMA
  • The BV4.1 Procedure for Decomposing and Seasonally Adjusting Economic Time Series
  • The BV4.1 software (version 1.1)

• Information by subject area
  • External trade
    • The treatment of e-commerce and software in German foreign trade statistics
  • National accounts
    • Revision of national accounts
    • Income accounts
    • Calculation of fixed assets / capital stock
  • Environmental-Economic Accounting (EEA)
    • Introduction in the Environmental-Economic Accounting
    • Advising board on EEA
    • Calculation and analysis of a hybrid energy input-output table for Germany
      within the Environmental-Economic Accounting (EEA)
    • Decomposition analysis of carbon dioxid-emissions changes in Germany-Conceptual framework and empirical results
    • On monetary valuation of environmental degradation in the framework of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting