The Federal Statistical Office of Germany (German: Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland) is a federal authority of Germany. It is a part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Office is responsible for collecting, processing, presenting and analysing statistical information concerning the topics economy, society and environment. The purpose is providing objective, independent and highly qualitative statistical information for the whole public. About 2780 staff members are employed in the departments in Wiesbaden, Bonn and Berlin. For Wikipedia statistics, see m:Statistics Statistics is the science and practice of developing human knowledge through the use of empirical data expressed in quantitative form. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany, located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ...

The department in Wiesbaden 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 the Federal Returning Officer as well. In this position he or she is the supervisor of the elections of the German Parliament ("Bundestag") and of the European Parliament. The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ... The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary body of the European Union. ...

The Berlin Information Point is the service centre of the Federal Office in the German capital and provides information and advisory services for the German Government, other federal authorities, embassies, industry and public, associations and all those who are interested in official statistics in Berlin and Brandenburg. Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Politics of Germany takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Federal Chancellor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ... A graph of a Normal bell curve showing statistics used in educational assessment and comparing various grading methods. ...   (Lower Sorbian: Bramborska; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska) is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ...

External links

• Homepage of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany

Coordinates: 50°04′16″N, 8°15′08″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...