Obtaining data from EuroStat

[andrewphilipsmith]

EuroStat provides unified data for all EU members but at an aggregate level. Whilst it is convinent becuase it covers many countries, it is likely that the data is not granular enough for our applications.

Geometry

• The hierarchy of geometries is:
  • NUTS1 (country level)
  • NUTS2
  • NUTS3 (most statistics are available at this level)
  • Local Administrative Units (LAU). This appears to be the lowest level at which Eurostat collects data, but many statistics are not available at this level.

Link to a summary of admin levels

Getting the geometry data:

• Manual downloads are possible here
• API access to NUTS
• API access to LAU
• Uses simple, unauthenticated http GET with JOSN response. Links to json files containing the name of metadata.json files, which themselves contain filenames of files to download. Some parsing of the json metadata files is required to create the relevant URLs, but the actual download looks easy to automate.
• licence/terms of use etc

Statistics

• There is API access described here.
• Manually searchable catalogue of statistics

Likely tables:

• "Population by broad age group and NUTS 3 regions" (cens_21agr3)
• --"Passenger cars per 1 000 inhabitants" (road_eqs_carhab)-- - In fact, this is only at the country level.
• "Stock of vehicles by category and NUTS 2 regions" (tran_r_vehst)

[andrewphilipsmith]

Marked as wontfix for now. Will review if we have an application for census data at this level of granularity.