Microcensus 2023: Over 20,000 households are surveyed
The State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate informs:
How many people from Rhineland-Palatinate are employed and what are their professional qualifications? What is the monthly net income of households and families? How many single mothers are employed? The microcensus provides answers to such frequently asked questions. The survey has been carried out annually since 1957 in one percent of all households throughout Germany. Over 20,000 households in Rhineland-Palatinate will be spread over the whole of 2023 to the microcensus surveyed, sometimes twice a year.
The State Statistical Office asks the households selected for the survey in writing for information, which can be provided online or on paper.
The President of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Statistical Office, Marcel Hürter, appeals to all selected households to take part in the microcensus survey. This is the only way to ensure that reliable results can be made available to the diverse users of statistics from politics, science and the interested public. More info at www.microcensus.rlp.de .
The micro census …
- is a so-called area sample, for which addresses are selected according to a mathematical random process.
- surveys the households residing in the selected buildings up to four times in five consecutive years. In around 50% of the households, the second and fourth surveys take place 13 weeks after the first and third surveys respectively, in the remaining households once a year.
- is a survey with a statutory obligation to provide information.