Press release No. N005 of 18 October 2019
WIESBADEN – In the digital age the bodies of official statistics are faced with new opportunities and challenges. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has thoroughly analysed the potential of new digital data for statistics production in close cooperation with the statistical offices of the Länder for several years now. Such data are rapidly available and cannot be processed with traditional methods; basically, they are what is generally called "big data".