Press release No. 031 of 24 January 2022
WIESBADEN – The microcensus 2022 has started. As in the previous year, the official survey is conducted under special conditions. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the survey is mainly carried out in the form of telephone or online interviews or using printed questionnaires. In order to reduce contact to a minimum, face-to-face interviews will only be conducted in exceptional cases. Using a statistical random method, a total of roughly 810,000 people in about 370,000 households will be selected and surveyed between January and December 2022. This is approximately 1% of the population. As a representative part of the latter, they will be asked about their school education and studies, training and advanced training, occupation and search for work, income and living conditions, childcare, internet use and housing circumstances.
A short video (only in german) on the website of the Federal Statistical Office explains what the microcensus is, why it is caried out, how the households are randomly selected, why they have to participate and what is done with their answers. The video is available also in Arabic, English, Polish, Russian and Turkish. For more information on the microcensus and answers to frequently asked questions please refer to www.mikrozensus.de
