Insolvenzstatistik in der Corona-Pandemie – aktuellere Ergebnisse durch Webscraping

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, insolvency statistics have increasingly become a focus of public attention. Since May 2020, the Federal Statistical Office has published a flash indicator to supplement the results of the official insolvency statistics. This enables trends in the total insolvency figures for Germany to be identified two months earlier than before. The Federal Statistical Office uses a new data source, namely a public website with insolvency announcements, for compiling the flash indicator. This article describes the development and first results of the flash indicator, and it analyses the current insolvency situation in Germany.