pyrostat

Interface to the REST API providing access to Eurostat online database.

About

This module will enable you to automatically query, search, download and handle data from the online database of Eurostat.

documentation	available at: https://eurostat.github.io/pyrostat/
status	since 2017 – in construction
contributors
license	EUPL

Description

Notes

• The Web Services have some limitation as to the supported for a request since currently a maximum of 50 "categories", e.g. a message "Too many categories have been requested. Maximum is 50." is returned in case of a too large request (see the data scope and query size limitation here). This limitation is bypassed by the use of the esdata package.

Data sources

• EU open data initiatives: pan-European public data infrastructure.
• Eurostat database: online catalog and bulk download facility.
• Eurostat web-services: access to JSON and unicode data, the REST API with its query builder.
• Eurostat standard code lists: RAMON metadata.

Tools and references

• How Open Are Official Statistics?.
• Lahti L., Huovari J., Kainu M., and Biecek, P. (2017): Retrieval and analysis of Eurostat open data with the eurostat package, The R Journal, 9(1):385-392.
• Package eurostat R access open data from Eurostat.
• Library java4eurostat for multi-dimensional data manipulation.
• Lightweight dissemination format JSON-stat.
• Library _jsonstat.py for reading JSON-stat format data.
• Client pandaSDMX for statistical data and metadata exchange in Python.
• Library wbdata for accessing World Bank data.