State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate
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State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate |
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| State level | country |
| founding | 1948 |
| Headquarters | Bad Ems |
| Authority management | Marcel Hürter |
| Servants | 330 |
| Web presence | www.statistik.rlp.de |
The State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate in Bad Ems an der Lahn is a State Statistical Office and has been the service provider for all aspects of statistical infrastructure in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1948 . At the beginning of 1948, work began in the former Hotel Römerbad in Bad Ems after the provisional state government had ordered the merger of the two statistical offices established by the French military government in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and Koblenz-Stolzenfels on January 1, 1947 immediately after the end of the war . Over the decades, neighboring buildings were used to expand the State Statistical Office, namely the former Kurmittelhaus, the Prince of Wales Hotel and the Panorama House.
Statistics are used for orientation and position determination, they are part of social controlling and often the basis for decision-making, whether in business, politics, administration or for citizens. 250 EU and federal statistics as well as 60 state statistics provide the necessary information on the state and development of society, the economy, the public sector and the environment. Neutrality, objectivity, scientific independence and data protection are the top principles.
The State Statistical Office in Bad Ems does not only deal with statistics. It is also a service provider for the efficient handling of cost-intensive administrative tasks. In the State Statistical Office, all calculations for the payment of the housing benefit and for agricultural subsidies are carried out. In addition, the State Statistical Office calculates the key allocations to the municipalities , association municipalities and districts within the framework of municipal financial equalization , the municipal shares in income and sales tax and the trade tax allocation , maintains the state's real estate file and records the income and expenditure reported by the state coffers on a daily basis Framework of the state budget. Last but not least, an important task follows from the function of the President of the State Statistical Office as the State Returning Officer .
