Scientific forum

The Scientific forum provides users interested in academic issues with information on methodological developments, colloquia, the scientific award presented by the Federal Statistical Office and selected research projects.


Under Methods and procedures, you are provided with general methodological information, for instance on time series analyses, the Demographic and Regional Standards and also methodological explanations regarding the individual statistics.


Click on Colloquia to access the programmes of and a collection of abstracts and full versions of the papers delivered at the colloquia run by this Office together with the German Statistical Society since 2003.