@datenguide/metadata v0.0.1

Datenguide metadata

This repo holds manually curated metadata about German public statistics for use by the Datenguide project. It includes metadata about the following entities:

Regions

German regions, NUTS level 1-3 (Bundesländer, Regierungsbezirke, Statistische Regionen, Landkreise, Kreisstädte, etc.) and LAU (Gemeinden). Regions are managed in /regions.json using the following structure:

{
    "08425": {
        "id": "08425", // AGS for the region
        "name": "Alb-Donau-Kreis", // Nicely formated name of the region
        "type": "Landkreis", // Type of region (e.g. Kreisfreie Stadt, Regierungsbezirk)
        "level": 3, // NUTS level (1-3), LAU (4)
        "duration": {
            "from": "2012-01-01", // ISO dates for earliest available statistical measure
            "until": "2019-12-31"  // ISO dates for latest available statistical measure
        }
    },
}

Statistics and measures

Metadata about regions are managed in Markdown files using the following structure:

to be defined

License

The metadata in this repository was derived from data originally published by the German Federal Statistics Offices, Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, under the Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0.