System of Social Indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany: Population

The system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany - developed in its original version as part of the SPES project under the direction of Wolfgang Zapf - provides quantitative information on levels, distributions and changes in quality of life, social progress and social change in Germany from 1950 to 2013, i.e. over a period of more than sixty years. With the approximately 400 objective and subjective indicators that the indicator system comprises in total, it claims to measure welfare and quality of life in Germany in a differentiated way across various areas of life and to observe them over time. In addition to the indicators for 13 areas of life, including income, education and health, a selection of cross-cutting global welfare measures were also included in the dashboard, i.e. general welfare indicators such as life satisfaction, social isolation or the Human Development Index. Based on available data from official statistics and survey data, time series were compiled for all indicators, ideally with annual values from 1950 to 2013. Around 90 of the indicators were marked as "key indicators" in order to highlight central dimensions of welfare and quality of life across the various areas of life. The further development and expansion, regular maintenance and updating as well as the provision of the data of the system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany have been among the tasks of the Center for Social Indicator Research, which is based at GESIS, since 1987. For a detailed description of the system of social indicators for the Federal Republic of Germany, see the study description under "Other documents".<br>The data for the area of life ´population´ is made up as follows:

Agglomeration and migration: external migration, number of immigration, net migration, share of immigration from the EU in total immigration, number of asylum seekers per 10,000 inhabitants. Population density: population density, population density in independent cities, population density in large cities, population density in communities with less than 5000 inhabitants. Regional mobility: internal migration. Burden on the working population: total burden of support (inactive population ratio), burden of supporting children (children´s quotient), burden of supporting students (education quotient), burden of supporting older people (old-age quotient). Population size, growth and structure: Population size (resident population (end of year), population growth rate, natural population growth), generative behavior (net production rate, combined birth rate, mean age at first child), population structure (proportion of the population under 15 years, proportion of the population between 15 and 15). y. and 65 y., proportion of the population over 65 years of age), ethnic structure and integration (proportion of foreigners, proportion of foreigners from the European Union, proportion of marriages between Germans and foreigners, consent for foreigners to remain). Forms of cohabitation: propensity to marry (marriage rate of 35 to 45 year olds, marriage age of single people, combined first marriage rate (= total marriage rate)), importance of stability of marriage and family (out-of-wedlock birth rate, divorce rate, combined divorce rate, remarriage rate), lifestyles and family types (Proportion of single-person households, proportion of incomplete families, proportion of non-marital partnerships, families with children, families with one child, families with two children, families with three children, families with four or more children), widowhood disparity (gender ratio of widowed people aged 65 and over). year of life), subjective evaluation of the family (ideal number of children, importance of the family, family satisfaction). Household structure: contraction tendency (proportion of 3- and 4-generation households, proportion of the population in large households (5 or more people)), solitarization (proportion of the population in single-person households).