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svemagie 34c99ec7a9 fix: rename 6 DE datasets README.md→{Name}.md + add 7 missing source catalogs

Renames (consistent naming convention):
- DE-Church-Exits, DE-Mental-Health, DE-Social-Isolation,
  DE-Wastewater-Surveillance, DE-Wellbeing, DE-World-Values

New source catalog entries (DS-00021 through DS-00027):
- Church Exits (EKD/DBK), Common Metrics (Destatis/Bundesbank/BA/ZEW),
  Democracy Metrics (V-Dem/RSF/ALLBUS), Mental Health (Gallup/Destatis/DAK),
  Social Isolation (Genesis/Einsamkeitsstudie), Wellbeing (Eurostat EHIS),
  World Values (WVS/EVS)

All 16 DE datasets + 1 EU dataset now have consistent naming and source catalogs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-04-23 12:05:57 +02:00

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DE Mental Health Indicators

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Metric	Value	Confidence	Last Updated
Work disengagement (Gallup 2023)	85% not/actively disengaged	90%	2023
Engaged at work (Gallup 2023)	15%	90%	2023
Suicides 2022	10,119	99%	2022

One-liner: Only 15% of Germans engaged at work; 10,119 suicides in 2022.

Caveat: Gallup measures work engagement, not general meaning; Eurostat EHIS surveys are conducted only every 5+ years.

Quick Context

Germany's Gallup Engagement Index shows chronic disengagement: 15% actively engaged, 70% going through the motions, 15% actively disengaged. Mental illness has risen from rank 4 to rank 1–2 of all sick-day causes since 2010 (DAK/TK annual reports). Suicide counts (Destatis) provide the hard endpoint; engagement and sick-day data are the upstream signals.

Datasets

gallup-engagement.csv

Annual Gallup Engagement Index for Germany (2001–2023).

engaged_pct: Active emotional investment in work
not_engaged_pct: "Dienst nach Vorschrift" — going through the motions
actively_disengaged_pct: Actively undermining workplace
meaning_deficit_pct: Sum of not_engaged + actively_disengaged

No API available. Data sourced from Gallup annual reports. Source: https://www.gallup.com/de/engagement-index-deutschland.aspx

suicide-statistics.csv

Annual suicide counts by sex (Destatis, ICD-10 X60-X84). Source: Statistisches Bundesamt, Table 23211-0001. Genesis API (requires free account): https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online

eurostat-mental-health.csv

Eurostat EHIS-based mental health indicators for DE (sparse — EHIS conducted ~every 5 years).

Note on DAK/TK AU-Tage (Sick Days) Data

The most impactful metric — AU-Tage wegen psychischer Erkrankungen (sick days due to mental illness) — is published annually by health insurance funds (DAK, TK, AOK, Barmer) but has no public API. Data is in annual Gesundheitsreport PDFs:

Key finding (from published reports): Mental illness rose from rank 4 to rank 1-2 of all sick days since 2010.

Substrate Connection

Problems: PR-00001 (Meaning Crisis), PR-00003 (Performance Society Exhaustion)
Proxy cluster: Mental Health & Work Meaning
Argument: AR-00004

Changelog

Date	Change	Reason
2026-04-22	Initial dataset created	PR-00001 evidence expansion

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