Uniform directory of all federal and state statistics
In the official statistics of Germany is EVAS as acronym for " E inheitliches V erzeichnis a serial S tatistics the federal and state governments." This is a list of all nationwide statistics published jointly by the State Statistical Offices and the Federal Statistical Office . The individual statistics are grouped in terms of content and clearly identified by hierarchical three-level numbering. This numbering is also used in the GENESIS databases. While one, two or three digits are used to group the statistics increasingly specific, the individual statistics are identified by five-digit numbers.
The rough breakdown of official statistics at the top hierarchy level is shown below.
- 1 Territory, population, employment, elections
- 2 Education, social benefits, health, administration of justice
- 3 Housing, the environment
- 4 economic sectors
- 5 Foreign trade, business, craft
- 6 Prices, Earnings, Income and Consumption
- 7 Public Finances
- 8 general accounts
- 9 special areas
There are 45 two-digit grouping numbers among them. Area 7 (public finance) is broken down as follows:
- 71 Public households
- 72 Public funds, institutions and companies with their own accounting
- 73 taxes
- 74 Public Service Staff
- 79 Others (for state or federal purposes)
At the lowest level there are 224 three-digit grouping numbers. Area 73 (taxes) is subdivided as follows:
- 731 wage and income tax
- 732 corporation tax
- 733 sales tax
- 734 excise duties
- 735 business taxes
- 736 taxes on property
- 737 Tax Distribution
- 739 Other in the area of taxes
Each three-digit grouping number contains one or more of the total of 605 individual statistics (including statistics that have been retired). For example, within the grouping number 733, there is only the statistic 73311 (sales tax statistics).
The EVAS numbers are suitable search terms in the GENESIS database and the regional statistics database. However, only some of these statistics are available in these databases.