Source of the Destatis land-use teaching files

Publisher: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Wiesbaden, Germany.
Report: Statistischer Bericht - Flaechenerhebung nach Art der tatsaechlichen Nutzung 2024.
English teaching translation: Statistical report - Survey of land area by actual use, 2024.
Statistical survey (EVAS): 33111. Article number: 2030510247005.
Reference date: 31 December 2024. Publication date: 21 November 2025.
Downloaded: 20 October 2026.

Official workbook URL:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Landwirtschaft-Forstwirtschaft-Fischerei/Flaechennutzung/Publikationen/Downloads-Flaechennutzung/statistischer-bericht-flaechenerhebung-2030510247005.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile&v=2

Official publication page:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Landwirtschaft-Forstwirtschaft-Fischerei/Flaechennutzung/_inhalt.html

Files supplied with this example:
- destatis-land-use-2024.xlsx: byte-for-byte copy of the official workbook.
- destatis-land-use-2024.csv: UTF-8, semicolon-separated export of the complete
  populated range A1:BL18 in worksheet csv-33111-03. All 17 records and all
  64 original headers are retained. Percentages are written with decimal commas
  at the source table's published precision of one decimal place. Trailing
  empty formatted spreadsheet rows are omitted. The 94 unpopulated data cells
  remain empty; they are not replaced with zeros or inferred values.
- destatis-land-use-2024-dictionary.csv: complete 64-column dictionary with
  source headers, German labels from presentation table 33111-03, English
  teaching descriptions, units, and land-use codes. The translations are
  explanatory course material, not official Destatis translations.

The csv-33111-03 source worksheet is supplied by Destatis for data processing.
The report explains that its CSV tables omit footnotes and further explanations.
Use the presentation tables, publisher's legend and explanatory sheets alongside
these data. The source description calls the table 33111-3.1; the worksheet/table
navigation labels it 33111-03. Both labels refer to this source table.

The records are Germany (code 0) and 16 federal states (codes 01 to 16), all
at the 2024 reference date. The first five columns describe the source, year
and region. The sixth is total area in hectares. The remaining 58 fields are
shares of total area in percent, at different levels of a category hierarchy.
Do not sum parent categories and their components or combine the national
aggregate with the states. The separate sustainability-indicator tables apply
additional exclusions; their indicator is not a simple sum of all settlement
and transport area. Read their definitions when reproducing that indicator.

Empty source cells do not explain the reason for unavailability. The lesson
imports them as NA. The publisher's zero legend allows positive values smaller
than half a unit in the last displayed digit. Displayed zero and NA must not
be treated as interchangeable. ALKIS became the statistical basis in 2016;
the catalog was expanded in 2023. Historical versions require a comparability
check before combining them with this report.

Copyright and reuse notice in the workbook's Impressum:
Copyright Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), 2025.
"Vervielfaeltigung und Verbreitung, auch auszugsweise, mit Quellenangabe gestattet."
English explanation: reproduction and distribution, including extracts, are
permitted with source attribution. The source's copyright/reuse statement is
retained in the original workbook. This attribution does not relabel the
upstream data as material authored by this course.

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