The Federal Statistical Office (, shortened ''Destatis'') is a federal authority of

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. It reports to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The Office is responsible for collecting, processing, presenting and analysing

statistical Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

information concerning the topics economy, society and environment. The purpose is providing objective, independent and highly qualitative statistical information for the whole public. About 2300 staff members are employed in the departments in

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden (; ) is the capital of the German state of Hesse, and the second-largest Hessian city after Frankfurt am Main. With around 283,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 24th-largest city. Wiesbaden form ...

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and

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. The department in

is the main office and runs the largest library specialised in statistical literature in Germany. It is also the Office of the President who is also by tradition, but not by virtue of the office, the

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. In this position, they are the supervisor of the elections of the German Parliament ("

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") and of the

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. The Berlin Information Point is the service centre of the Federal Office in the German capital and provides information and advisory services for the

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, other federal authorities, embassies, industry and public, associations and all those who are interested in official

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in Berlin and

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External links

Official website of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany
{{Authority control 1953 establishments in West Germany Federal Ministry of the Interior (Germany) Government agencies established in 1953

German federal agencies Buildings and structures in Wiesbaden Organisations based in Wiesbaden

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