Package: eurostat [edit]

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Description

"Eurostat’s mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service."

Very large amount of data on a wide variety of European statistics.

Openness: OPEN

Access

Good.

License

Copyright is essentially waived (modulo some attribution and integrity provisions) though for commercial redistribution need to to sign up to some further terms but process is free.

Details excerpted from http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/pls/portal/url/page/PGP_DS_LICENCE

  • Copyright. This statistical data is available from first October 2004 onwards, free of charge on Eurostat's web site. Provided that the source is acknowledged, it may be reproduced under the conditions specified in the general copyright notice.

  • Licence for redissemination of Eurostat data for commercial purposes. Commercial redistribution is permitted, subject to the conclusion of a licence agreement with the Publications Office. This licence entitles the Contractor to distribute to third parties, on the conditions described in the licence, the information published by Eurostat. The licence specifies coverage of data (with exceptions), acknowledgements and responsibilities. The licence is free of charge.

Exceptions

Note that various of the eurostat microdata datasets are not open (from linked page):

Microdata are confidential data which contain information about individual statistical units. The current legal framework enables access to anonymised microdata available at Eurostat only for scientific purposes. The release of the data sets to researchers is governed by Commission Regulations 831/2002 and 1104/2006 implementing Council Regulation 322/97 on access to confidential data for scientific purposes. The EU-SILC microdata set has its own Regulation 1177/2003, but also follows the provisions of the above-mentioned Regulations.

The following microdata sets exist:

  • ECHP (European Community Household Panel)
  • LFS (Labour Force Survey)
  • CIS (Community Innovation Survey)
  • CVTS (Continuing Vocational Training Survey)
  • EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions)
  • SES (Structure of Earnings Survey)