Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)Macroeconomics

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Coverage

Series catalogued

7,896

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Central Statistics Office) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.cso.ie/
Provider terms: https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/whoweare/copyrightpolicy/

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download cso series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/cso
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: overwrite if changed
Storage layout: overwrite-multiple-files: one parquet per subject group (e.g. 26_Labour_Market.parquet, 29_National_Accounts.parquet) — ~46 files — plus cached _catalog.json. Schema series_key(str like CSO:<MtrCode>:DIM=code...), obs_date(date32; annual Dec-31, monthly/quarterly/weekly first-of-period), value(float64). In-function de-dup via a 'seen' (key,date) set.

Full description

CSO Ireland (Central Statistics Office) — PxStat full ingest. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) Source: https://data.cso.ie / https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/ No API key required. Coverage: ~10,000+ tables across 9 themes: * Census (population by age, sex, nationality, housing, etc.) * Economy (national accounts, trade, finance, prices) * Labour Market and Earnings * People and Society (health, housing, crime, education) * Business Sectors (agriculture, industry, transport, tourism) * Environment (energy, climate, ecosystem) * Other Public Sector Bodies (Central Bank, Dept of Health, etc.) * High Value Datasets * Themed Publications Run: python jobs/ingest_cso_ireland.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets