The state statistical offices of the federal states fulfill the tasks of official statistics in Germany together and in cooperation with the Federal Statistical Office . In accordance with the state and administrative structure in the Federal Republic of Germany according to Article 83 of the Basic Law, the implementation of statistics is basically a matter for the federal states. According to Art. 73 No. 11 of the Basic Law, the federal government has the exclusive legislative power for “ statistics for federal purposes ”.
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Currently (January 2016) there are 14 statistical offices for the 16 federal states: