ons

ons

Provider

provider_name:	ONS
provider_longname:	Office for National Statistics
provider URL:	http://ons.gov.uk
region:	UK
terms of use:	https://www.ons.gov.uk/help/termsandconditions
approximate number of datasets:	> 3000

Data accessibility

SDMX:	no
REST API:	https://developer.ons.gov.uk/ Unusable for data: only one timeseries at the time. Maybe useful for identifying datasets and their hierarchy
Bulk Download:	xls, csv, or structured text
Account:	No

Desired datasets

Description:	From top level - Business, Industry and Services: everything except IT and internet industry Economy: everything Employment and labour market: everyhting People, population and community: - Births, deaths and marrage: Deaths - Deaths registration summary tables Live Births - Birth summary tables: England and Wales Housing Personal and household finance - Income and wealth Nowcasting household income in the UK Population and migration - International migration Provisional long-term migration estimates Short term international migration 01
Remark:	an Excel file contains several datasets, one per sheet. Use the file name as a category code and file title as category name
Note:	the databases seem to be in CSV files, while tables extracted from publications are Excel files.
Selection:	we download only CSV files
Note:	All CSV files are on the same model

Data tree

Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site:	yes
How to recover the information:	parse html pages or https://api.ons.gov.uk/dataset
Branches:	keep a tree branch only if it ends up in a CSV file

Datasets

datasetCode:	CSV filename (without .csv)
how to get release date:	Row 5
dataset docHref:	yes HTML page
dataset notes:	no
dimension_list:	"unit" (merge Row 3 and Row 4), the list is to be built while reading series
use of attributes:	?
attribute_list:	?
available frequencies:	A, Q, M
availability of previous updates:	no
existence of real time datasets:	no

Series

Series key:	Row 2
Series name:	Row 1
Series docHref:	no
Series notes:	Row 7
missing values:	?
date format:	yyyy, yyyy Qq yyyy Mm
mixed frequencies in the same dataset:	yes

Updates

calendar of future updates:	https://www.ons.gov.uk/releasecalendar?view=upcoming + the date of future release appears on Row 6 of a CSV file
summary of previous upudates:	https://www.ons.gov.uk/releasecalendar
regular updates:	no
RSS flow:	feed://www.ons.gov.uk/releasecalendar?rss&view=upcoming
best way to monitor updates:	parse calendar

Special problems

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