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Date: December 18, 2024 WISTA edition 6/2024

WISTA is a scientific journal regularly published by the Federal Statistical Office Germany. It offers articles on topics relating to official statistics.

Date: December 13, 2024 25% of EU energy consumption covered by renewables

In 2023, around 25% of gross final energy consumption in the EU-27 was covered by renewable energy. The highest share of renewable energy was achieved by Sweden.

Date: December 13, 2024 Conference on Anonymization of Integrated and Georeferenced Data (AnigeD)

Date: December 2, 2024 Messenger services: German user rate significantly lower than EU average

80% of 16- to 74-year-olds in Germany use messenger services such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. The highest rate was recorded in the Netherlands.

Date: December 2, 2024 One in five enterprises provide IT training for their employees

In the EU, 22% of enterprises offer training on IT-related topics for their employees in 2024 – with big differences between countries.

Date: December 2, 2024 3.5 million Legal Units in 2023

With its structural analyses of the German economy as a whole and of individual economic sectors, the Statistical Business Register provides political, economic and scientific stakeholders with an important basis for decision-making.

Date: November 29, 2024 Women in research and development: Germany lags behind

Women continue to be significantly underrepresented in research and development (R&D) in Germany. Their share amounted to just 29.4% in 2021. This was one of the lowest figures in the EU-27.

Date: November 28, 2024 Grape must harvest 2024: 8.2 million hectoliters expected

According to estimates in October, a total grape must harvest of 8.18 million hectoliters is expected for Germany this year.

Date: November 25, 2024 Methodological notes on the results

Mission and methodology of measuring administrative burdens - the Standard Cost Model and compliance costs

Date: November 14, 2024 Public funds, institutions and enterprises

They play a major role regarding both the services of general interest and the support of economic activities in Germany. The FEU of municipalities/associations of municipalities accounted for the largest share (87.7%) of the 20,407 reporting units …

Date: November 11, 2024 Price level in Germany above EU average in 2023

The price level of private consumption expenditure in Germany was 9.6% higher than the average of the 27 EU Member States in 2023.

Date: November 7, 2024 Germany has highest health expenditure in EU

In 2022, current health expenditure in Germany amounted to 12.6% of its gross domestic product (GDP). This was the highest share of all 27 EU Member States.

Date: October 28, 2024 Implementation of the EU enterprise definition in structural business statistics from reference year 2018

In structural business statistics, results for enterprises have been presented according to the EU enterprise definition - as specified by the EU Regulation on statistical units - since reference year 2018, the first year the new definition was …

Date: October 28, 2024 New structural statistics for trade and services

The structural survey of service activities has been conducted in conjunction with the annual survey of wholesale and retail trade and the annual survey of accommodation and food service activities since reference year 2021. The basis for the new …

Date: October 17, 2024 WISTA edition 5/2024

WISTA is a scientific journal regularly published by the Federal Statistical Office Germany. It offers articles on topics relating to official statistics.

Date: October 14, 2024 Explanations on the labour market

Date: October 2, 2024 Major Revision of National Accounts 2024

In 2024, a Europe-wide harmonized major revision of the National Accounts took place in Germany. The revised results were published for the first time in sommer 2024.

Date: September 19, 2024 Structural Data 2022

In 2022 a total of approximately 570,000 enterprises active in the German crafts sector employed around 5.4 million persons. More than 4.1 million of them were employed subject to social insurance contribution. Roughly 630,000 were employed in …

Date: September 17, 2024 9.6 million people across the EU working in hotels and restaurants

The hospitality industry employs around 9.6 million people in the EU. Particulary in popular tourist destinations such as Greece, Spain and Cyprus, the hotel and restaurant industry is of great importance for the labour market.

Date: September 13, 2024 Women in executive positions: Germany below EU average

In 2023, 29% of the executive positions in Germany were held by women.

Date: August 21, 2024 Industrial sector in Germany remains stronger than in many other EU Member States

In 2024 the industrial sector accounted for 19.7% of the gross value added generated in the German economy.

Date: August 15, 2024 How does the register census work?

The aim is to gradually transform the census method and move to a register-based procedure. The register census data on the population, buildings and dwellings, households and families, the labour market and education are to be derived from existing …

Date: August 15, 2024 Legal Basis

Federal statistics are always produced on the basis of national legislation or an EU legal act. A number of general provisions are in place in addition to the legal rules laid down in the relevant specialised statistics act.

Date: August 15, 2024 Current note on the producer price index of agricultural products

In the course of reworking the revision to the base year 2020 (only in German available), index values were corrected for various items of the producer price index of agricultural products.

Date: August 15, 2024 Work progress

The register census is a joint project of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder. The offices cooperate closely with the municipalities and other agencies that keep registers and data. The specialised statistical areas are currently …

Date: August 14, 2024 WISTA edition 4/2024

WISTA is a scientific journal regularly published by the Federal Statistical Office Germany. It offers articles on topics relating to official statistics.

Date: August 1, 2024 Purchasing power parities (PPP)

Purchasing power parities (PPP) indicate how many units of a currency have to be paid for a specific volume of goods and services in different countries.

Date: July 18, 2024 SMEs generated 77% of turnover in the economic sector of construction, accomodation and food services

Large enterprises have by far the largest turnover. In the reference year 2022, the turnover of SMEs amounted to 26% of the total turnover in the economic sectors studied. With 42% for gross value added, 44% for gross investment in tangible goods and …

Date: July 18, 2024 55% of the persons employed worked in SMEs

The vast majority of the enterprises in the economic sectors examined employed less than 250 persons and had an annual turnover of not more than 50 million Euro in 2022. Thus they belonged to the SMEs. This was true for 99.3% of the total of 3.1 …

Date: July 17, 2024 Organic farming

The proportion of agricultural land designated to organic farming is slowly increasing within the EU. However, organic livestock is still very much a niche market.