Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB)

Name: Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB)
Creator: Statistics Norway
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

5,568

Temporal coverage

1769-12-31 – 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 Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå, SSB)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.ssb.no/en
Provider terms: https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download ssb series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/ssb
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: sdmx delta
Storage layout: per-group parquet files ssb/grp_<subject>.parquet (~186 files, keyed by first 2 chars of table id) plus a cached ssb/_catalog.json. Each group written once via a single pq.write_table.

Full description

Statistics Norway (SSB) — full PxWeb ingest. License: Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) + CC BY 4.0 Source: https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank/ No API key required. Coverage: ~10,000+ tables in the SSB statistical database: * National accounts and GDP * Labour force and wages * Consumer prices and inflation * Trade in goods * Population and demography * Housing prices and construction * Financial accounts * Energy statistics * Environmental accounts * Regional statistics PxWeb API: GET {BASE}/{path} → catalog list POST {BASE}/{path}/{id}/ → data (JSON-stat2) Run: python jobs/ingest_ssb.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