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EUROSTAT
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provider\_name
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: Eurostat
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provider\_longname
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: Eurostat
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provider URL
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: <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/home>
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region
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: European Union
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terms of use
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: <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about/policies/copyright>
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approximate number of datasets
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Data accessibility
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SDMX
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: ML 2.1
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REST API
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: <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/web-services> SDMX + JSON. See
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whether is is useful to get updated data only.
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Bulk Download
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: SDMX XML or TSV
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<http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/estat-navtree-portlet-prod/BulkDownloadListing?sort=1&file=data/>
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Account
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: No
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Desired datasets
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Description
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: All datasets
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Data tree
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Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site
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: Yes
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How to recover the information
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: <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/estat-navtree-portlet-prod/BulkDownloadListing?sort=1&file=table_of_contents.xml>
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with update information in the lastUpdate date. The lastModified
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date corresponds to the last table structure change (probably adding
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a new observation ?)
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Datasets
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datasetCode
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: provided
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how to get release date
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: in DSD
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dataset docHref
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: yes
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dataset notes
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: yes
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dimension\_list
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: provided in DSD
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use of attributes
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: yes
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attribute\_list
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: provided in DSD
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available frequencies
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: A,Q,M,W,D, ...
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availability of previous updates
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: no
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existence of real time datasets
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: no
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warning
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: dimension and attribute code lists are more complete than the value
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effectively used in a dataset. It is necessary to rebuild the code
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list while reading the series.
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Series
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Series key
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: provided
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Series name
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: (provided or to be made up from dimensions)
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Series docHref
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: yes/no
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Series notes
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: yes/no
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missing values
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: code for missing values or way to detect them
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date format
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mixed frequencies in the same dataset
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: some dataset have mixed frequencies
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Updates
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-------
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calendar of future updates
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: no
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summary of previous updates
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: only latest one in
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<http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/estat-navtree-portlet-prod/BulkDownloadListing?sort=1&file=table_of_contents.xml>
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regular updates
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: the site is updated every day 15 11:00 and 23:00
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RSS flow
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: <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/RSS/rss_estat_news.xml>
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best way to monitor updates
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: read
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<http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/estat-navtree-portlet-prod/BulkDownloadListing?sort=1&file=table_of_contents.xml>
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at 11:05 and 23:05, every day
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Special problems
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> - dimensions names may be in uppercase in DSD but in lowercase in
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> SDMX series: we force to lower case
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> - this may not be the case for attributes names but we force also to
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> lower case by symmetry
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Other remarks
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