1. Long Time Series for Germany 1 Presentation at the Euroindicators Working Group 10 th Meeting – 3 & 4 December 2007 Luxembourg Stephanus Arz Statistics Department Deutsche Bundesbank Frankfurt am Main, Germany Long Time Series for Germany

2. 2 Outline 0. Occasion 1. The data 2. The metadata

3. Long Time Series for Germany 3

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5. 5 1. Principal Economic Indicators for Germany 1.National Accounts (price adjusted) 2.Employment and labour market 3.Indicators for selected sectors 4.Producer and consumer prices 5.Foreign trade

6. Long Time Series for Germany 6 1.1 National Accounts (price adjusted) ❙ GDP ❙ Domestic use ❙ Private consumption ❙ Government consumption ❙ Gross fixed capital formation ❙ Exports ❙ Imports ❙ Labour costs per employee (nominal)

7. Long Time Series for Germany 7 1.2 Employment and labour market – western Germany and Germany as a whole ❙ Employment ❙ Registered unemployment ❙ Rate of registered unemployment ❙ Vacancies

8. Long Time Series for Germany 8 1.3 Indicators for selected sectors ❙ Industrial production ❙ Orders received by industry (price adjusted) ❙ Production in the construction sector ❙ Retail turnover (at current and at 2000 prices)

9. Long Time Series for Germany 9 1.4 Producer and consumer prices ❙ Producer price index ❙ Consumer price index (national definition) ❙ Harmonised index of consumer prices (up from 1995)

10. Long Time Series for Germany 10 1.5 Foreign trade at current prices in DM/€ billions ❙ Export ❙ Import ❙ Balance

11. Long Time Series for Germany 11 2. Details 2.1 Title and explanatory notes (in German and English) ❙ Source of the data

12. Long Time Series for Germany 12 2. Details 2.1 Title and explanatory notes (in German and English) ❙ Source of the data ❙ Territorial definition

13. Long Time Series for Germany 13 2. Details 2.1 Title and explanatory notes (in German and English) ❙ Source of the data ❙ Territorial definition ❙ Methodological information ❙ Other notes

14. Long Time Series for Germany 14 2. Details 2.2 Seasonally adjusted data Seasonal adjustment was derived by (a) using historical figures which were formerly adjusted using Census-X-11 or (a) X-12-ARIMA

15. Long Time Series for Germany 15 2. Details 2.3 Linkage operation ❙ Figures for the whole period were often only available in part ❙ They were generally linked into a single series by using annual averages ❙ Econometric estimates to impute missing values were not required