MRH commuter interweaving

Content Explanation ‘In employment statistics, commuters are all employees subject to social security contributions whose working community is different from the municipality of residence. Whether and how often is commuted is irrelevant. Commuter results are available annually on the 30th of June. Commuters are people who do not live in their working community. Commuters are people who do not work in their community. The employee’s place of residence comes from the employer’s social security reports. The current address must be communicated by the employer at each registration, a change in the address only in connection with the following annual report. If an employee’s place of residence or place of work is not known, it must not be counted among commuters.’ Granularity of data To illustrate commuter flows, the individual municipalities of the metropolitan region were merged into larger areas, based on their own calculations: City and municipal level The term “municipality” refers to overarching mergers of municipalities such as “Ämter” in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein or “Samtgemeinden” in Lower Saxony. In the absence of a uniform national name for this administrative level, such concentrations are also subsumed colloquially under the term ‘community’. Circular plane This refers to (country)circles and district-free cities, since both territorial definitions are at the same administrative level. Data source The source data on which this data set is based was acquired by the Federal Employment Agency for 2017, 2019 and 2020 respectively. Notes on related geoservices The associated WMS geoservice (WMS MRH commuter integrations) will be expanded with the annual data of 2019 and 2020. Furthermore, the data is used in the analysis tool “Pendler Flows” from the MRH Geoportal. The visualisations there always refer to the latest available year (2017, update to 2020 in progress). Other information At the level of the (country)circles/district-free cities, the source data can be viewed directly at the Federal Employment Agency. Each year and state there is one Excel spreadsheet: Link These Excel tables also provide more detailed explanations on the survey method. Since methodological changes may occur from year to year, the details can best be found directly from the tables in question. The content explanation at the beginning of this dataset description is an excerpt from it (taken from the data tables 2017). Community-level data, such as those underlying this dataset, must be acquired separately from the Federal Employment Agency.