Strengthening of the Residents' Register and the Voters' Register in Berlin

Abstract

The use of registers for administrative purposes has a long tradition in Germany. Nevertheless, there is a strong demand for improvement regarding quality management in Berlin and the integrative and cross-sectional use of registers, especially considering their use for official statistics. This is notably true against the background of e-government, the desire for fast and citizen-friendly administrative procedures, less cost-intensive surveys, less redundant and more consistent data storage, and an exclusively register-based census. The article describes the approach and outcome of the project, which was carried out from 2018 to 2022.