ISTAT
Provider
- provider_name: ISTAT
- provider_longname: Italian National Institute of Statistics
- provider URL: http://www.istat.it/en/
- region: Italy
- terms of use: http://www.istat.it/en/legal-notice (Creative Commons License)
- approximate number of datasets:
Data accessibility
- **SDMX: 2.0, 2.1 see http://www.istat.it/it/strumenti/web-service
- REST API: SOAP
- **Bulk Download: No
- Account: No
Desired datasets
- Description: All datasets listed in request Dataflow
Data tree
- Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site: yes
- How to recover the information: http://dati.istat.it/
Datasets
- as in SDMX
Series
- as in SDMX
Updates
- calendar of future updates: http://www.istat.it/en/information/journalists/press-room-calendar
- summary of previous updates: http://www.istat.it/it/strumenti/web-service/aggiornamenti-dataset
- regular updates: no
- RSS flow: no
- best way to monitor updates: read future updates
Special problems
- it is difficult to understand the syntax of SOAP requests
- see examples in http://www.istat.it/it/files/2013/07/Queries.zip (for SDMX v2.0)
- the web site is slow
- It is impossible to download the list of datafiles during the day. I was able to do it at 22:00