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Date: March 13, 2025 Economic Data

According to provisional data, turnover in crafts with compulsory approval decreased by 1.3% in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared to the fourth quarter of 2023

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 19, 2024 Crafts enterprises with non-compulsory approval

The tables on the subject: Crafts enterprises with non-compulsory approval, persons employed and turnover by groups of trades

Date: September 19, 2024 Shares of small and medium-sized enterprises in the crafts sector

The tables on the subject: Shares of small and medium sized in the crafts sector 2022

Date: September 19, 2024 Total of Crafts enterprises

The tables on the subject: Crafts enterprises, persons employed and turnover by groups of trades

Date: September 19, 2024 Enterprises, persons employed and turnover in selected economic sections in 2022

The tables on the subject: Census of crafts 2021, Crafts enterprises, persons employed and turnover ins selected economic sections in 2022

Press release No. 412 of 28 September 2022 Crafts sector in 2020: 5.4 million persons employed achieve turnover of 651 billion euros

In 2020, approximately 5.4 million people in Germany worked in crafts with compulsory or non-compulsory approval. This included roughly 4.1 million employees subject to social insurance and about 687,300 marginally paid employees. Based on the census …

Press release No. 380 of 9 September 2022 Crafts sector: turnover up 7.4% in the 2^nd quarter of 2022

In the second quarter of 2022, turnover in crafts with compulsory approval in Germany increased by a nominal (not price adjusted) 7.4% compared with the second quarter of 2021. The positive trend of the first quarter of 2022 (+16.0% on the same …

Press release No. 240 of 13 June 2022 Crafts sector: turnover up 16.0% in the 1^st quarter of 2022

In the first quarter of 2022, turnover in crafts with compulsory approval in Germany increased by 16.0% compared with the first quarter of 2021, which had been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. This increase should be considered in the context of …

Press release No. 102 of 11 March 2022 Crafts sector: turnover up 1.7% in 2021

In 2021, turnover in crafts with compulsory approval in Germany increased again by 1.7% on the previous year. This growth was also fuelled by price increases.Trades serving industrial needs and health trades accounted for a large part of the positive …