esri
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Provider
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:provider_name: esri
:provider_longname: Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office 
:provider URL: http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
:approximate number of datasets: 12

Data accessibility
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:SDMX: No
:REST API: NO
:Bulk Download: yes, csv files
:Account: No

Desired datasets
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:Description: We are interested in amount of GDP (expenditure approach) and inflation, Annually and Quarterly. Up to now kept the last released version. 


Data tree
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:Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site: no
:How to recover the information: There is 12 different csv files for each year such as: http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/data/sokuhou/files/2015/qe153_2/gdemenuea.html

Datasets
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:datasetCode: esri1-12 
:how to get release date: Archive is avaiable, so we can get the released date through url of the archive. 
:dataset docHref: http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
:dataset notes: no
:dimension_list: provided : concept
:use of attributes: yes/no
:attribute_list: no 
:available frequencies: Annual and Quarterly
:availability of previous updates: http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/data/sokuhou/files/toukei_top.html
:existence of real time datasets: no
Series
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:Series key: to be made up :'esri.' + str(column[3]) + '; ' + frequency
:Series name: to be made up : variable name+'_ ' + frequency +'_ ' +currency
:Series docHref: no
:Series notes: no
:missing values: no
:date format: %a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT (up to now we got just the last version of the data, so we used the file headers information as a released date)
:mixed frequencies in the same dataset: no

Updates
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:calendar of future updates: http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/kouhyou/kouhyou_top.html
:summary of previous upudates: http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/data/sokuhou/files/toukei_top.html 
:regular updates: 8 times in the year
:RSS flow: no
:best way to monitor updates: check this url for new update http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/en/sna/data/sokuhou/files/toukei_top.html, and check the last year for monthly update. 
Special problems
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To retrieve variable name, there is necessary to read two rows(4 and 5), and combine them. In addition, the variable names need to be edited (Adding space or removing extra space)

Other remarks
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Data samples
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:location: in test_esri file 
:description: