METI
Provider
- provider_name: METI
- provider_longname: Ministry of Economic, Trade and Industry
- provider URL: http://www.meti.go.jp/english
- region: Japan
- terms of use: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/other/terms_of_use.html
- approximate number of datasets: we want 2 datasets
Data accessibility
- SDMX: (If yes, links and SDMX releases implemented: NO
- REST API: NO
- **Bulk Download: xls or csv
- Account: No
Desired datasets
- Description:
- Indices of industrial production http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/iip/csv/b2010_g1e.zip
- Indices of Tertiary Industry Activity http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/sanzi/csv/b2010_ke.zip
Data tree
- Existence of a hierachy of datasets on web site: yes
- How to recover the information: no category tree as there are only two datasets
Datasets
iip
- datasetCode: iip
- datasetName: Indices of Industrial Production by Industry (2010 = 100.0)
- how to get release date: get the date from http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/iip/yotei/xml/e-stat_iip_e.xml
- dataset docHref: no
- dataset notes: no
-
dimension_list:
- frequency: 'M': monthly, 'Q': quarterly, 'A': annual. The 8th character of the file name indicates the frequency. Annual data are in the quarterly file
- seasonal adjustment: 'O': original, 'S': seasonaly adjusted. The 7th character of the file name indicate the adjustment
- concept: 'IP': industrial production, 'PS': producer's shipments, 'PIF': producer's inventory of finished goods, 'PIR': producer's inventory ratio of finished goods, 'PIRA': 'PIR': producer's inventory ratio of finished goods (average). The concept is found in cell A1 after ':'. Drop the last parenthesis with the index base
- use of attributes: no
- attribute_list: na
- available frequencies: A, Q, M
- availability of previous updates: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/iip/kako_press.html
- existence of real time datasets: no
sanzi
- datasetCode: sanzi
- datasetName: Indices of Tertiary Industry Activity by industry (2010 = 100.0)
- how to get release date: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/sanzi/yotei/xml/e-statE_sanzi_e.xml
- dataset docHref: no
- dataset notes: no
-
dimension_list:
- frequency: 'M': monthly, 'Q': quarterly, 'A': annual. The 8th character of the file name indicates the frequency. Annual data are in the quarterly file
- seasonal adjustment: 'O': original, 'S': seasonaly adjusted. The 7th character of the file name indicate the adjustment
- concept: There is no 'concept' dimension in this dataset
- use of attributes: no
- attribute_list: na
- available frequencies: A, Q, M
- availability of previous updates: Only in PDF
- existence of real time datasets: no
Series
- Series key: column A
- Series name: column B
- Series docHref: no
- Series notes: no
- missing values: no
- date format: 2008CY (civilian year) 2008FY (fiscal year) 2008Q1 200801 (January 2008)
- mixed frequencies in the same dataset: yes
- column C (weights) is ignored
Updates
- calendar of future updates: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/iip/yotei/xml/e-stat_iip_e.xml + http://www.meti.go.jp/english/statistics/tyo/iip/yotei/xml/e-stat_iip_e.xml
- summary of previous updates: only for the current year same URLs as above
- regular updates: no
- RSS flow: http://www.meti.go.jp/english/rss/index.html
- best way to monitor updates: parse release calendars
Special problems
(like variable names in ESRI)
Other remarks
Data samples
- location: in test_xxx file or light files in dlstats/dlstats/tests/resources
- description: a very brief description of the data samples