Zensus 2022: Scientific method ensures exact population for municipalities

Zensus 2022: Scientific method ensures exact population for municipalities

In a well -awaited message, Karsten Lummer, the project manager of the 2022 census at the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), made it clear: subsequent counts of individual municipalities are a red cloth! Without a legal basis, and no more than symbolic actions, these own counts have no place in the official procedure for determining the population.

"The census 2022 was determined according to a scientifically based method that is even approved by the Federal Constitutional Court. This method ensures that the population is comparable nationwide," said Lummer. Any attempt by municipalities to subsequently correct their own numbers wobbles like a house in the storm. Citizens need to know that they are not obliged to this own counts!

The truth about the deviations

It is no secret that deviations between the registration assistants and the number of censors occur. But why? Often there is a lack of reports when moving or moving abroad- and that counts: people have not properly signed or re-registered!

• unannounced main residential seats!
• continuing without official deregistration!
• And there are also the escape movements since the last census 2011!

Each of these problems leads to a distortion of real numbers - and for this reason, Germany regularly needs a sober inventory of its population to ensure the correctness of the registration registers. The census is the answer to this challenge!

The role of the Federal Statistical Office

The Federal Statistical Office insists on compliance with the nationwide uniform methods: "This is the only way to get valid numbers that apply to all municipalities," explains Lummer. Own counts based on arbitrary methods are a recipe for chaos - and nobody really wants that!

The office speaks for initiatives that raise the quality of the registration registers, but has clear limits when it comes to counting methods that are not covered by the law. Things like recording letters as a counting method are simply not acceptable. "Who can guarantee that a letter delivery will actually arrive at the right address?"

The results of the census 2022 can be viewed online at www.zensus2022.de , and here it will be shown how important the exact determination of the data for the future of municipal planning is. Whether population figures, demography, or housing count - the census shows how Germany is and where there is a need for action.

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