Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB)

Name: Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB)
Creator: Statistics Sweden
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Open · redistributedCreative Commons Zero (CC0)Macroeconomics

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

Coverage

Series catalogued

2,550

Temporal coverage

1749-01-01 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: Creative Commons Zero (CC0)
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Required attribution: Source: Statistics Sweden (recommended, not required for CC0 open data)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.scb.se/en/
Provider terms: https://www.scb.se/en/services/open-data-api/

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download scb series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/scb
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: sdmx delta
Storage layout: multi-file, one parquet per subject area: data/clean_full/scb/<SUBJ>.parquet (AA, AM, BE, BO, EN, FM, HA, HE, JO ... observed). series_key = '<table/path>:<dim>=<code>:...' built from non-time dimensions of the JSON-stat2 cube; obs_date from PxWeb time codes; value float64. Per-subject in-run dedup via 'seen' set on (key,date). Plus _catalog.json (crawl cache) and _scb_log.txt. MAX_CELLS=100000 caps each table query; oversized tables fall back to selecting only the first/aggregate value of non-time dims (partial coverage).

Full description

Statistics Sweden (SCB) — full PxWeb ingest. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) Source: https://www.scb.se/en/services/open-data-api/api-for-the-statistical-database/ No API key required. Coverage: ~10,000+ tables in the SCB statistical database: * National accounts (GDP, GNI, output by industry) * Labour force survey (employment, unemployment, wages) * Consumer/Producer price indices * Trade in goods and services * Population and demography * Industrial and business surveys * Financial accounts and public sector * Housing and construction PxWeb API: GET {BASE}/{path} → catalog list POST {BASE}/{path}/{tableId}/ → data (JSON-stat2) Run: python jobs/ingest_scb.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