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.