City Data (67 Large Cities in the Federal Republic of Germany)

Social and economic figures for 67 large West German cities. The data
aggregated at city level have been collected for most topics over
several years, but not necessarily over the entire reference time
period.

Topics: 1. Situation of the city: surface area of the city;
fringe location in the Federal Republic.

2. Residential population:
total residential population; German and foreign residential
population.

3. Population movement:live births; deaths; influx; departures; birth
rate; death rate; population shifts; divorce rate; migration rate;
illegitimate births.

4. Education figures: school degrees; occupational degrees; university
degrees.

5. Wage and income: number of taxpayers in the various tax classes as
well as municipality income tax revenue in the respective classes;
calculated income figures, such as e.g. inequality of income
distribution, mean income or mean wage of employees as well as standard
deviation of these figures; GINI index.

6. Gross domestic product and gross product: gross product altogether;
gross product organized according to area of business; gross domestic
product; employees in the economic sectors.

7. Taxes and debts: debt per resident; income tax and business tax to
which the municipality is entitled; municipality tax potential and
indicators for municipality economic strength.

8. Debt repayment and management expenditures: debt repayment,
interest expenditures, management expenditures and personnel
expenditures.

9. From the ´BUNTE´ City Test of 1979 based on 100 respondents per
city averages of satisfaction were calculated. satisfaction with:
central location of the city, the number of green areas, historical
buildings, the number of high-rises, the variety of the citizens,
openness to the world, the dialect spoken, the sociability, the density
of the traffic network, the OEPNV prices {local public passenger
transport}, the supply of public transportation, provision with
culture, the selection for consumers, the climate, clean air, noise
pollution, the leisure selection, real estate prices, the supply of
residences, one´s own payment, the job market selection, the distance
from work, the number of one´s friends, contact opportunities,
receptiveness of the neighbors, local recreational areas, sport
opportunities and the selection of further education possibilities.

10. Traffic and economy: airport and Intercity connection; number of
kilometers of subway available, kilometers of streetcar, and kilometers
of bus lines per resident; car rate; index of traffic quality;
commuters; property prices; prices for one´s own home; purchasing
power.

11. Crime: recorded total crime and classification according to armed
robbery, theft from living-rooms, of automobiles as well as from motor
vehicles, robberies and purse snatching; classification according to
young or adult suspects with these crimes; crime stress figures. 12.
Welfare: welfare recipients and social expenditures; proportion of
welfare recipients in the total population and classification according
to German and foreign recipients; aid with livelihood; expenditures
according to the youth welfare law; kindergarten openings; culture
expenditures per resident. 13. Foreigners: proportion of foreigners in
the residential population.

14. Students: number of German students and total number of students;
proportion of students in the residential population.

15. Unemployed: unemployment rate; unemployed according to employment
office districts and employment office departments.

16. Places of work: workers employed in companies, organized according
to area of business.

17. Government employees: full-time, part-time and total government
employees of federal government, states and municipalities as well as
differentiated according to workers, employees, civil servants and
judges.

18. Employees covered by social security according to education and
branch of economy: proportion of various education levels in the
individual branches of the economy.