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2011-10-17In 2010, 26% of the people with a migrant background were at risk of poverty in Germany. Their poverty risk thus was more than twice that of the population without migrant background (12%). This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October. The population with a migrant background comprises both Germans with a migrant background and foreigners.
2010: elderly people living in nearly one household out of three
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2011-09-30At least one senior person from the age of 65 lived in almost 30% of the 40.3 million households in Germany in 2010 according to current microcensus results. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) further reports on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons on 1 October 2011, some 20 years ago (1991) the households of elderly people had accounted for a share of only 25%.
One out of five in Germany with migration background in 2010
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2011-09-26As in the years before, the number of people with a migrant background increased slightly in 2010, amounting to well over 15.7 million. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ) further reports on the basis of microcensus 2010 results, that was a share of 19.3% of the total population in Germany.
Just under half of the city children from families with migrant background
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2011-09-20In 2010 about 31% of the minor never-married children in Germany lived in a family with a migrant background. As further reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the World Children’s Day on 20 September 2011, in cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants even almost one in two minor children (46%) came from a family with a migrant background.
Number of children in Germany has dropped by 2.1 million since 2000
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2011-08-03According to the results of the microcensus, some 13.1 million minor children were living in Germany’s households in 2010. Ten years earlier – in 2000 – this number was 2.1 million higher, amounting to 15.2 million. The results of the 12th co-ordinated population projection indicate that the downward trend will continue.
More than half of the couples with children are double earners
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2011-05-13
In 2009, in more than half (52%) of the married couples or of the consensual unions with at least one minor child, both partners were in employment. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Day of Families on 15 May 2011.
Mother’s Day: many mothers have to work on Sundays, too
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2011-05-06In 2009, more than one in four mothers in employment with minor children (26%) worked at least occasionally on Sundays and holidays. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis ) on the occasion of Mother’s Day on 8 May 2011. 42% of those mothers went to their workplace regularly, and 12% even permanently, on Sundays and holidays. 46% worked occasionally on such days. This is shown by results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
Slight decline in the number of private households after 2025
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2011-03-30The total number of private households in Germany is predicted to increase by about one million to 41 million by 2025. After that, the trend will be reversed. As the Federal Statistical Office’s (Destatis) new household projection until 2030 reveals, the tendency towards more one-person and two-person households will initially result in a higher number of households over the next fifteen years, despite the expected population decrease. Then a point will be reached where the decrease in the population is no longer compensated for by the “fragmentation” of households. From the mid- 2020s onwards, the number of private households can therefore be expected to decline slightly by about 125,000.
In Germany more than seven in ten mothers economically active
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2011-03-08
In Germany, 72% of the 25 to 49 year old mothers with at least one child under 25 years living in the same household were economically active in 2009. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8 March 2011, with that employment/population ratio of mothers, Germany was among the middle-ranking countries in an EU comparison.
School and vocational qualification of young mothers
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2011-02-18According to results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe, the number of mothers with at least one child living in the household amounted to nearly 11.6 million in Germany in 2009. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), 267,000 mothers were aged under 25 years, which was a share of 2% of all mothers. About 1% of all mothers still went to school or participated in vocational training courses, while the relevant proportion was 13% among young mothers aged under 25 years.
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2010-11-02Tomorrow’s International Men’s Day will focus on the issue of men’s health. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on that occasion, 60% of adult men in Germany were overweight in 2009. For comparison: The share was just 43% among women.
About three fourths of elderly women living alone are widows
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2010-09-30In 2009, 73% of the women from the age of 60 who lived alone were widowed. About every seventh elderly woman living alone was divorced (15%) and every tenth was single (10%). 2% of the elderly women were married but separated. These results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe , were reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Day for Older Persons on 1 October 2010.
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2010-09-20In 2009, 25% of the 13.3 million minor children in Germanylived without siblings in an household. This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the World Children’s Day on 20 September 2010. Nearly half of the minor children (47%) were growing up with a brother or sister in the household. A proportion of 28% had two or more siblings. These are the current results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe. In addition to natural children, stepchildren, foster and adopted children are included, too, in this context.
Educational attainment of the woman higher with every eleventh couple
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2010-09-06With 9% of the couples in Germany, the woman has a higher educational qualification than the man. This was reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Literacy Day on 8 September 2010. With most couples (61%), the educational attainment of both partners is the same or similar; with 30% of the couples the man has a higher educational qualification than the woman. This is shown by the current results of the 2009 microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe. For the purpose, married and cohabiting couples were studied where both partners had provided information on their education.
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2010-07-29As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), about 60% of the total of 1.4 million lone mothers were in employment in 2009. The proportion of the 6.7 million mothers in couple families (married couples and unions of cohabiting partners) who were actively engaged in work was almost as high (58%). As regards the number of hours worked, however, there were substantial differences between lone mothers and mothers in couple families. The percentage of mothers in employment who worked full time was far higher among lone mothers (42%) than among mothers in couple families (27%).
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2010-06-07As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), young women leave their parental home earlier than men of the same age. In 2008, just under half (47%) of the women aged 18 to 26 years lived as unmarried children in their parents’ household, while among men of the same age the share was nearly two thirds (63%). This is a result shown in the brochure Frauen und Männer in verschiedenen Lebensphasen (Women and men in various stages of life) released today.
Expenditure per pupil at public schools amounted to Euro 5,000 in 2007
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2010-04-22The public sector spent an average of Euro 5,000 per pupil at public schools in 2007. These data have currently become available at the Federal Statistical Office. While the total of Euro 5,400 was spent per pupil at schools of general education, the expenditure at vocational schools per pupil amounted to Euro 3,600. The expenditure per pupil included personnel costs, current expenditure on material and equipment and investment expenditure at public schools.
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2010-03-08Current results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe, show that in 2008 32.5 million women kept a private household in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, 42% of the 32.5 million women earned their livelihood mainly through their own job. About three out of ten women (29%) financed their living mainly through pensions. Another 19% of the women had to rely on the income of their family members, 10% had other main sources of livelihood, for example, unemployment pay, basic security benefits for job-seekers (Hartz IV) or property of their own.
Every fourth juvenile living in an alternative family form
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2010-02-04The number of juveniles growing up in alternative family forms has increased in Germany. Family forms that are regarded as alternatives to married couples with children include cohabiting couples with children and single mothers and fathers. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), about 842,000 (25%) of the total of 3.4 million juveniles aged between 14 and 17 lived in households of single parents or cohabiting partners in 2008. In 1996, their number still amounted to 600,000 or 17% of the total of 3.6 million juveniles. However, the largest number of juveniles is growing up in traditional families: In 2008, not less than 75% (2.6 million) of the juveniles aged 14 to 17 years were raised by married couples. These are some of the current results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
Slightly increasing proportion of population with a migrant background
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2010-01-26In 2008, 15.6 million of Germany’s total population (82.1 million) had a migrant background. This means that 19% of the population immigrated into Germany after 1950 or were descendants of those immigrants (2007: 18.7%, 2005: 18.3%). This is reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) based on figures of the microcensus. The increase recorded was due to two trends: Compared to 2007, the population with a migrant background rose by 155,000 as a result of immigration and birth figures. At the same time, the population without a migration background fell by 277,000 to 66.6 million.
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2009-10-14As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the share of mothers working part-time in Germanyrose strongly in the past ten years. In 2008, 69% of mothers in employment who cared for children under eighteen in their households had a part-time job. In 1998, the corresponding figure had been 53%. So the share of part-time working mothers increased 16 percentage points over that period. This is shown by the results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
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2009-07-29The number of childless women is increasing in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in 2008 21% of the women aged 40 to 44 years had not given birth to a child. By contrast, 16% of the women who were ten years older (birth cohorts from 1954 to 1958) and only 12% of the women who were 20 years older (birth cohorts from 1944 to 1948) were childless. A share of 26% of the women aged between 35 and 39 years had no children yet in 2008. However, the proportion of childless women will still decline in this age group.
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2009-03-26As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), there were 8.6 million families with minor children in Germanyin 2007. A total of 13.8 million children under 18 years lived in those families, which was an average of 1.61 children per family. Ten years earlier (April 1997), the average was 1.65 children. This is shown by results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
Men more frequently without health insurance protection
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2008-12-11As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), an average of 196,000 persons in Germany had neither health insurance nor any other entitlement to health care in 2007. Hence, 0.2% of the total population had no health insurance protection. Most of those persons were men (68%). This is shown by the results of the additional programme “data on health insurance” covered every four years as part of the microcensus, which is the largest annual household survey in Europe.
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2008-12-09As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), 87% of the 50 to 75 year old women indicated to have given birth to children. Accordingly, 13% of the women of that age group had remained childless. This is shown by the provisional results of the microcensus for 2008 (first three quarters), which is the largest annual household survey in Europe. For women aged between 50 and 75 (female cohorts from 1933 to 1958), it is assumed that they will no longer give birth to children.
Migrants, too, profiting from positive labour market trend in 2007
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2008-11-26The population with a migrant background in Germanyprofited considerably from the positive labour market trend observed in 2007. This is shown by microcensus results published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The number of unemployed persons in this population group declined by 178,000 as compared to the situation a year earlier, while simultaneously the number of persons with a migrant background employed to an extent exceeding marginal part-time work increased by 221,000.
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2008-10-31As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the occasion of the International Men’s Day, the number of boys and men living in households in Germanyas a whole amounted to 40 million in 2007. A total of 11 million were unmarried sons who lived in the households of their parents. Nearly two thirds of the 29 million men were married (64%), while 26% were singles, 9% partners in a consensual union and almost 1% single fathers. The above current results were obtained in the context of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
Number of consensual unions amounting to 2.4 million in Germany
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2008-08-25As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the number of consensual unions of different genders amounted to a good 2.4 million in Germanyin 2007. Since 1996, their number has increased by about one third (+34%). At that time, 1.8 million consensual unions of different genders lived and kept house together. The above figures are a result of the 2007 microcensus, the largest annual survey of households in Europe.
Every fourth family in Germany has a migration background
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2008-08-05As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), slightly more than every fourth family (27%), out of the total of just under 8.6 million families with minor children in the household, had a migration background in Germanyin 2007. This proportion stood at 30% in the former territory of the Federal Republic(excluding Berlin) and was more than twice as high as in the new Länder (including Berlin), where the proportion was 14%.
Both partners working in about half of all couples with children
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2008-07-22As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), about half (51%) of all mothers and fathers of two-parent families were in employment in Germany in 2007. However, 35% of all couples with children organised their working life in line with the “traditional” distribution of roles, meaning that it was exclusively the father who had a job. In this context, the term couples refers to married couples and unions of cohabiting partners with at least one child under 15 years of age in the household.
Still less useful floor space in Eastern than in Western Germany
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2008-03-03As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the housing conditions in the former territory of the Federal Republic (excluding Berlin) and in the new Länder (including Berlin) still differ considerably. In 2006 the average housing space per person in Western Germany was 44.1 square metres, in Eastern Germany the corresponding figure was 38.6 square metres. The dwellings had an average useful floor space of 94.2 square metres in the West and 76.7 square metres in the East. This was shown by recently evaluated results from the 2006 microcensus supplementary component on the housing situation in Germany.
First quarter of 2007: More than 200,000 persons were without health insurance
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2008-02-07As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), a total of 211,000 persons were without health insurance or any other entitlement to medical services in Germany in the first quarter of 2007. This was shown by the results of the microcensus additional programme called “Data on health insurance”, which is included at four-year intervals in the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe. Based on the data of those microcensus respondents who provided information on health insurance, just under 0.3% of Germany's total population did not have health insurance. This was a slight increase of just under 0.2% from April 1999 and of just over 0.2% from May 2003.
Share of alternative family forms higher in eastern than in western Germany
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2007-11-28As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, alternative family forms accounted for 42% of all families in the new Länder in 2006. Alternative family forms include single parents and cohabiting couples with children. In the former territory their share was just 22%, as compared to 26% for the whole of Germany.
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2007-05-11As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the occasion of Mothers Day on 13 May, about 1.9 million mothers in Germany aged 15 to 64 years raised young children of under three years in the household in 2005. That are about 154,000 mothers less than in April 1996. This is shown by current results of the microcensus, the largest household survey in Europe. In this context, children include not only natural children but also stepchildren, adopted children and foster children.
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2006-09-19As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the occasion of the World Children’s Day on 20 September, about two thirds (69%) of the 20.7 million children in Germany lived together with at least one minor or major sibling together in one household in 2005. This means that about every third child (31%) grew up without siblings in the household. This is shown by current results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
23% of young persons grow up in alternative family forms
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2006-08-09As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the occasion of the International Youth Day on 12 August, an increasing number of 14 to 17-year-old children grow up in alternative family forms. In 2005, 880,000 (23%) of these 3.8 million young people lived with single parents and consensual unions, in April 1996 the respective figures had been 600,000 or 17% of the 3.6 million young persons. However, most young people still grow up in traditional family forms: In 2005, married couples still raised 77% or 2.9 million of the 14 to 17-year-olds living in families. This is shown by the latest results of the microcensus, which is the largest household survey in Europe.
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2006-06-06In Germany there are hardly any households now in which three or more generations are living together. In 2005, among the 39.2 million households, there were only 1% in which parents lived together with children, the children’s grandparents and, in rare cases, their great-grandparents. About 32% of the households were multi-generation households in 2005. Nearly all of them were two-generation households (31%). However, their share in all households is decreasing, too (–7 percentage points from 1991), whereas the share of one-person households rose by 4 percentage points compared with 1991, reaching 38% in 2005.
“Alternative” family forms becoming ever more frequent
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2006-05-12As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the occasion of the International Day of Families on 15 May, “alternative” family forms are becoming ever more popular – especially in western Germany. This is shown by results of the microcensus, which is the largest household survey in Europe.
Mothers of minors continuously declining in number
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2006-05-11As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the occasion of the forthcoming Mother’s Day, in March 2004 about 8.8 million mothers aged 15 to 64 years were raising minors in households in Germany. This was a decline of about 5% compared to the situation eight years ago (April 1996: 9.2 million).
In the East 62% of the children live with married couples, in the West 81%
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2005-09-30As reported by the Federal Statistical Office on the Day of German Unity, 62% of the about 2.2 million children below the age of 18 in East Germany lived with married couples, 22% with single parents and 16% with a consensual union of different genders or the same gender. In West Germany, the situation is rather traditional: 81% or more than four fifths of the 12.5 million West German minors grew up with a married couple; 14% were raised by single mothers or fathers and 5% by a consensual union. That is the result of the microcensus, the largest annual survey of households in Europe conducted in March 2004.
Marked East-West differences in extent of childlessness
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2005-09-06As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, in March 2004, 30% of German women aged 37 to 40 years (birth cohorts of 1964 to 1967) in the former territory of the Federal Republic were childless, that means, there were no minor children in the household. Childlessness was markedly lower among German women of the same age in the new Länder and Berlin-East (22%) and among foreign women in Germany (21%).
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2005-03-22Women are still underrepresented in executive positions in Germany. In March 2004, women accounted for 47% of all persons in dependent employment, but for only 33% of all executives. This is one of the results of the Microcensus 2004 which have been presented by Johann Hahlen, President of the Federal Statistical Office, in Berlin today. Covering about 830 000 persons in some 390 000 households (1% of the population), the Microcensus is the largest annual household survey in Europe.
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2005-03-22For most commuters, the car is the major means of transport. In the past few years, its share in the total of the means of transport used by commuters has somewhat increased. Slightly more than 67% of commuters used a car to cover the major part of their way to work in March 2004, while their proportion amounted to just under 65% in 1996. This and other results of the Microcensus have been presented by Johann Hahlen, President of the Federal Statistical Office, in Berlin today. Covering about 830 000 persons in some 390 000 households, the Microcensus is the largest annual household survey in Europe.
Fewer eastern German children live together with siblings
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2004-09-14WIESBADEN – In May 2003, approximately 69% of the 20.9 million children altogether in Germany lived together with at least one brother or sister in the same family. While the share of western German children with siblings has grown by a percentage point to 72% since 1996, that share has declined markedly by six percentage points to 59% in eastern Germany. This emerges from the most recent results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
Nearly every seventh child growing up with a lone
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2004-05-12As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, the number of children under 18 years of age growing up with a lone mother or father amounted to nearly 2.2 million in May 2003, which was almost every seventh child (15%) of the approximately 14.9 million minor children in Germany. Hence the share of minor children living with a lone parent increased by three percentage points since 1996 despite a declining total of children. This is shown by the latest results of the microcensus, the largest annual household survey in Europe.
