Keywords; Search terms: historical time series; historical statistics; histat / HISTAT . Abstract: The author’s aim is to give an overview of the development of the official German statistics and specially the official employment-statistics in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Data-Sources of the official statistics of the GDR about the occupation has been:- four occupation censes, which has been carried out together with the population census (1950, 1964, 1971, 1981);- special surveys about the occupation carried out by the statistical service of the former GDR;- workplace-statistics and sector-specific reporting including information about employees, done by the SZS;- further statistical reporting by governmental organisations about employment. In order to realise comparability between the official statistics of the former GDR with the official statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), the Federal Statistical Office made substantial conversions and formed new statistical groups respectively (see special tables dealing with backward projection of the GDR-statistics, Table-Part D. and E.). Topics: Subcategorisation of the Study (Tables of the ZA-Database HISTAT):Some Data of the GDR-employment-statistics: I. The official employment statistics of the GDR:
A. Employed persons and population B. Employees and apprentices by occupational status C. Employees by economic sectors II. Making the former GDR’s labour force statistics comparable with the labour force statistics of the former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) D. Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden: Some Information of backward projection of the GDR’s labour force statistics into FRG-classification („ Systematics of economic sectors“, Issue 1979 (WZ)“) III. Selected Information of population and occupation census (1950, 1964, 1971, 1981), according to the systematics of the Federal Statistics. E. Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden: Employees of the former GDR by population and occupation census (conversion 1964, 1971, 1981) according to („ Systematics of economic sectors“, Issue 1979 (WZ)“)