Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom

Open · redistributedUK Open Government Licence v3.0Macroeconomics

ONS UK (Office for National Statistics) full ingest. License: Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL) Source: ONS API — https://api.beta.ons.gov.uk/v1/ No API key required. Strategy: * List all datasets from /v1/datasets * For each dataset: fetch the latest version CSV or observations * One Parquet per…

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

Temporal coverage

1977-12-31 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: UK Open Government Licence v3.0
License URL: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Required attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.ons.gov.uk
Provider terms: https://www.ons.gov.uk/help/termsandconditions

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download ons_uk series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/ons_uk
Update cadence: irregular
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: bulk snapshot if changed
Storage layout: one parquet per dataset: data/clean_full/ons_uk/<dataset_id>.parquet (42 files on disk), columns series_key/obs_date/value; series_key built from non-time/value dimension columns.

Full description

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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  "@type": "Dataset",
  "name": "Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom",
  "description": "Local authority ageing statistics, based on annual mid-year population estimates. ONS. 42 series, from 1977. Free download.",
  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/ons_uk",
  "identifier": "ons_uk",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
    "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com"
  },
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  "creator": {
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    "name": "Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom",
    "alternateName": "ONS",
    "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk"
  },
  "license": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "keywords": [
    "Macroeconomics",
    "ons_uk"
  ],
  "temporalCoverage": "1977-12-31/..",
  "creditText": "Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "sameAs": [
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/econdatalibrary-ons_uk",
    "https://zenodo.org/communities/econdatalibrary"
  ],
  "distribution": [
    {
      "@type": "DataDownload",
      "name": "ons_uk — CSV",
      "encodingFormat": "text/csv",
      "contentUrl": "https://econdatalibrary.com/download.html?source=ons_uk",
      "license": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/"
    }
  ]
}

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

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      "@type": "@vocab"
    },
    "sc": "https://schema.org/",
    "conformsTo": "dct:conformsTo",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
  },
  "@type": "sc:Dataset",
  "conformsTo": "http://mlcommons.org/croissant/1.0",
  "name": "ons_uk",
  "description": "Local authority ageing statistics, based on annual mid-year population estimates. ONS. 42 series, from 1977. Free download.",
  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/ons_uk",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom",
    "alternateName": "ONS",
    "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
    "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com"
  },
  "license": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "keywords": [
    "Macroeconomics"
  ],
  "distribution": [
    {
      "@type": "cr:FileObject",
      "@id": "ons_uk-csv",
      "name": "ons_uk-csv",
      "description": "Per-series CSV, downloadable with a free API key.",
      "contentUrl": "https://econdatalibrary.com/download.html?source=ons_uk",
      "encodingFormat": "text/csv"
    }
  ]
}

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