2011 German census
In Germany, the population figures for the federal government, the Länder and communes as well as results from the building and housing census were announced on 31 May 2013.
[1][2][3] In the past, Member States of the European Union have carried out censuses in self-government, which were difficult to compare with each other due to different catalogs of questions.
[4][5][6][7] EU Regulation 763/2008 of 9 July 2008 obliged the Member States of the European Union to collect data from a fixed catalog of characteristics for the 2011 census.
[8] As the 2011 census is held throughout the European Union, the Community has defined valid criteria for all Member States to obtain comparable data.
With a cabinet decision of 29 August 2006, the then federal government of the CDU / CSU and the SPD decided that Germany would participate in the EU-wide Census 2011 with a register-based procedure[9] On December 12, 2007, the Census Preparation Act 2011 was announced in the Federal Law Gazette[10] Which entered into force the following day.
Under this Act, the Federal Government granted the Länder a financial allocation of EUR 250 million on 1 July 2011 to offset the costs.
All selected citizens were legally obliged to answer the questions truthfully; In the case of refusal, the order of a compulsory money threatened.
These were related to nationality, religion, family status, immigration to the Federal Republic, school and vocational training and current professional activity.
In sensitive institutions, such as prisons, emergency accommodation or psychiatric hospitals, the data on the people living there were indirectly collected with the aid of the facility managers.
A sample plan was developed that combines moderate costs and a low level of interviews with high-quality data from the census.
On January 22, 2009, the Zensus Commission adopted an opinion on the feature catalog in the Cabinet drafting of the Census Ordinance (CensusG2011).
Further required characteristics are number of children per woman, commuter connections, energy source of the heating as well as net-net rent.
": Protest banner at the old main post office in Leipzig (26 June 2011) Data protectors criticize the extensive collection of personal data by the state without sufficient education of the citizens and fears in the face of possible covetousness in the state and economy an abuse of the sensitive information.
The Federal Statistical Office refers to the so-called prohibition, which excludes the transfer of the collected data to other authorities, and the earliest possible deletion of charac- teristics such as names and addresses.
Thus, a user of the census data could automatically view members of a public-law religious community as followers of the religion, regardless of their actual belief.
[16] The spokesman of the Federal Statistical Office stated in this context: "The consequence of this is that the group of atheists (but also those of the other religions) can not be proven in the censorship results.
The results of the census will therefore be that we have information about the large religious currents explicitly listed in the questionnaire, but will not know about the spread of other religions and atheism.
"The EU Eurobarometer" Social Values, Science and Technology " In 2005, atheists had previously been recorded as a separate group[16] Some surveyors ended their activities prematurely.
In January 2012, 50,000 complaints were sent by order of the Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein with the threat of compulsory measures,[17] On which a week later 40,000 had to be declared void due to errors in a commissioned company.
This corresponds to an error of 1.9%[18] A correction of the population update by 31 December 2012 on the basis of the results of the 2011 census is to be made by 5 August 2013.
