City statistics Stuttgart

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City statistics Stuttgart refers to the municipal statistics of the state capital Stuttgart . The data and information relating to Stuttgart and its sub-regions as well as to supraregional territorial units are collected or collected, processed, analyzed and presented by the statistical office.

assignment

Cities and municipalities need information about local living conditions and their possible development in order to fulfill their obligation to local self-administration and planning sovereignty according to Art. 28 Para. 2 of the Basic Law. The municipal statistics provide local politics and administration, business and the public with comprehensive and continuously updated information about demographic, social, economic and ecological relationships in the city and its sub-areas, in the surrounding area and in comparison to other cities. In this case, on all the sources of knowledge of official statistics ( Eurostat , Federal Statistical Office , Statistical Office of Baden-Württemberg ) and other state institutions ( Federal Employment Agency , automotive Federal Office and others), (z. B. on administrative register population register ) or own surveys are used, the data is condensed into appropriate information and evaluated in analyzes based on the problem. It is important to adequately convey this to decision-makers and consumers, but also to the media and the public.

history

In 1896 the municipal council and citizens' committee set up an independent statistical office. This was justified by the "importance of orderly local statistics ..., the requirements that are becoming more and more difficult to cope with ..., for imperial and state statistical purposes ..., the most rational possible solution to the increasingly numerous and difficult urban municipal task" (report on the administration ... in the years 1896 to 1898, p. 201). In the month of its foundation, the statistical material resulting from the entire city administration began to be published continuously in the “Statistical Monthly Reports of the City of Stuttgart”. The duties of the office in the first few years also included the processing of the city's administrative reports and, from 1896, the annual “Stuttgarter Ortschronik” (last in 1911).

With the introduction of a statistical district division in the rapidly growing Stuttgart at the beginning of the 20th century, general interest in the work of the statistical office grew.

A new chapter in the official history began in 1924 with the incorporation of the previously independent electoral office. In the two decades of economic hardship and political upheaval that followed, the office was assigned numerous administrative tasks: address book office (1924), street naming (1933 to the 1980s), district office (1934), issuing of permits for milk trading (1926), edition of the Evidence for fat purchase (1936), nutrition office (1940), economic office (1940) and income tax card office (1943), from which the main registration office developed, which was the most staffed department of the statistical office after the war until the reshuffle of the residents' system at the end of the 1980s . In the 30s and 40s the office grew to over 800 employees and civil servants.

After the war, the statistical office at the old location at 19 Büchsenstrasse had to be completely rebuilt. In addition to the municipal statistics, the maintenance of the register of residents, the issuing and changing of income tax cards and the holding of elections were among the most important tasks. The office presented its work results in the publication series “Statistische Blätter” and “Statistischer Informationsdienst”.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the use of EDP in the city administration not only made it easier and faster for the administrative and mass work of the statistical office, but also opened up new possibilities for obtaining and linking statistical data and their graphic and cartographic processing. From the now possible statistical observation of streets and quarters of city quarters, city districts and city districts, of surrounding communities, urban regions and densely populated areas, a new quality of provision of information infrastructure developed in the early 1970s .

In 1980 the company moved to the newly established administrative center at Eberhardstrasse 39 (Schwabenstrasse), which is still the official seat to this day.

In the 1980s, triggered by the census ruling of 1983, legal regulations (State Statistics, State Data Protection Act) defined the tasks of municipal statistics, but also strengthened their position in the administration. The State Statistics Law defines the municipal statistics as part of the official statistics and regulates the acquisition and storage of data with stringent data protection regulations.

Since the 1990s, the Statistical Office, aided by the rapid development of data processing, has opened up new data sources (vehicle inventory, traffic accident statistics, land use, business registers) or through new methods of data acquisition, the knowledge gained from existing data sources has been significantly increased (formation of household contexts, Deriving the migration background from the data in the population register). An important source of data for the ongoing monitoring of the housing market will be the building and housing file currently under construction. Forecasting methods (population, household, labor force, electoral forecast, housing demand forecast), which give politicians and administrators important information on future developments, are also playing an increasingly important role.

The collection of subjective data, which reflect the opinions and moods of the population about life in the city (problems, quality of life, assessment of projects and much more), has grown in importance. A representative citizen survey has been carried out every two years since 1995. If necessary, this is supplemented by special surveys (e.g. emigration, housing market, lifestyle, election day survey). Customer and employee surveys in municipal offices have been added as control and evaluation methods. The qualified rent index for Stuttgart , which has been compiled since the 1970s, is also of great importance .

The small-scale processing of statistical data has been significantly improved in recent years with the use of modern GIS-supported analysis methods. In addition to the still important processing of the data in the hierarchical system of small-scale structure, which divides the city area across the board into districts, districts, districts, building blocks and building block sides or other subject-related classification systems (constituencies, electoral districts, school districts, church districts and much more), are increasing today Flexibly generable spatial units (e.g. catchment areas) on the address basis requested. In the future, small-scale grid areas will also gain in importance as spatial data reference units.

In a systematic and future-oriented manner, the Statistical Office offers its databases and publications in a demand-oriented manner in databases and in a statistical information system with intranet and internet access. High access figures document the benefits and the widespread interest of politics, administration, business, citizens and the media in statistical data, information and analyzes.

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