Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands)

Name: Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands)
Creator: Statistics Iceland
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

1,068

Temporal coverage

1900-12-31 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Required attribution: Source: Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.statice.is
Provider terms: https://statice.is/publications/open-data-access/

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download hagstofa series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/hagstofa
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: sdmx delta
Storage layout: per-database parquet: Efnahagur.parquet, Atvinnuvegir.parquet, Ibuar.parquet, Samfelag.parquet, Umhverfi.parquet (5 files) plus _catalog.json. Schema: series_key (ICE:{db}:{path}:dim=code...), obs_date, value.

Full description

Statistics Iceland (Hagstofa Íslands) — PxWeb ingest. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) Source: https://www.statice.is/ No API key required. Coverage: All databases in the Statistics Iceland PxWeb system: * Efnahagur (Economy): GDP, trade, prices, public finance * Atvinnuvegir (Industry): fishing, agriculture, manufacturing * Ibuar (Population): demographics, births, deaths, migration * Samfelag (Society): education, health, housing PxWeb multi-database: GET {BASE}/en → list databases GET {BASE}/en/{db}/{path} → catalog or table POST {BASE}/en/{db}/{path}/{id}/ → data (JSON-stat2) Run: python jobs/ingest_hagstofa.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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