# DE Common Metrics — Source Catalog

**Source ID:** DS-00022
**Record Created:** 2026-04-23
**Cataloger:** Sven / PAI

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## Sources

### Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) — GENESIS API
- **URL:** https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online
- **Auth:** Free account required (DESTATIS_USERNAME/DESTATIS_PASSWORD)
- **Coverage:** CPI, PPI, import prices, industrial production, factory orders, retail sales, building permits, completions, population, births, crime, mortality, suicide, unemployment
- **Update frequency:** Monthly to annual depending on indicator
- **API:** REST + SOAP; POST with header auth

### Deutsche Bundesbank — Time Series API
- **URL:** https://api.statistiken.bundesbank.de/rest/data/
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** GDP, house price index, ECB key rate, 10Y Bund yield, EUR/USD
- **Update frequency:** Monthly to quarterly
- **API:** SDMX REST

### Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (BA) — Statistik
- **URL:** https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Unemployment rate, job openings, short-time workers, total employed, social insurance employed
- **Update frequency:** Monthly

### Zentrum fuer Europaeische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
- **URL:** https://www.zew.de/en/publications/zew-indicator-of-economic-sentiment
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** ZEW economic expectations, current situation assessment
- **Update frequency:** Monthly

### World Bank / Eurostat
- **Coverage:** GINI index (World Bank), median equivalised income, at-risk-of-poverty rate (Eurostat)
- **Update frequency:** Annual

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## Dataset

`Data/DE-Common-Metrics/DE-Common-Metrics.md`

## Automation

Updated via `bun ~/.claude/skills/Metrics/Tools/UpdateMetrics.ts --country de`