Provide information for the overindebtedness statistics

You are asked by the Federal Statistical Office to provide data for the overindebtedness statistics? You can submit the data online.

The Federal Statistical Office (StBA) continuously collects and analyzes data on the topics of income, consumption and living conditions of private households with the aim of drawing a picture of the different living conditions in Germany. Among other things, these statistics serve as a basis for action by policymakers.

In this context, the Federal Statistical Office collects the over-indebtedness statistics every year. This reports on the situation of overindebted people and those at risk of overindebtedness in Germany. It asks, for example, what triggers financial distress. The aim of the survey is to understand how overindebtedness among private individuals can be avoided or resolved.

For this survey, the Federal Statistical Office relies on data from debtor or insolvency counseling centers. The survey covers offices in Germany that are run by welfare and consumer associations, as well as municipal associations and other public corporations, or that are recognized as non-profit organizations or registered as associations.

The transmission of anonymized data from your institution for the over-indebtedness statistics is voluntary. Before you transmit the data to the Federal Statistical Office, you need the consent of the advice seekers who are depicted in the statistical data.

Data transmission works via software with an interface that automatically obtains the data from your software systems and transmits it to the Federal Statistical Office.

You do not need to submit any other documents.

Forms: none

Online procedure possible: yes

Written form required: no

Personal appearance required: no

For the transfer of personal data of the person seeking advice, you must obtain the consent of the same to the data transfer.

If the Federal Statistical Office requests data from you for the overindebtedness statistics, you can transmit it via the online reporting procedure eSTATISTIK.CORE. Software with an interface to official statistics transmits the relevant data from your software systems directly and automatically to the Federal Statistical Office.

• You do not yet have an advisory office number (ID number)? Then you can obtain one by e-mail from the Federal Statistical Office.
• For data transmission: log in to the survey portal of the federal and state statistical offices. Follow the respective instructions to use eSTATISTIK.CORE.
  • You have not registered yet? Then you have to do this first. Go to the online registration form on the website and fill it out. In a few days, an identifier and password will be sent to you by mail.
• If your data is available in DatML/RAW format, data extraction and data transmission is automated. The software with interface to official statistics automatically selects the required data from your database.
  • If your data is not in DatML/RAW format, you can import a CSV file into eSTATISTIK.CORE and create a datML/RAW file there.
• After selection, the data will be automatically transmitted to the Federal Statistical Office in encrypted form.
• You will receive a message about the successful data transmission in your mailbox on eSTATISTIK.CORE.

Your data must be submitted to the Federal Statistical Office by February 15 of the calendar year following the reporting year at the latest.

There are no costs for you.