National statistics offices

Where to get official figures outside the United States, and what tends to go wrong.

United Kingdom, ONS

• The ONS API serves datasets as JSON and CSV; the website search is often faster for finding the dataset ID.
• Time series have both a dataset ID and a series ID (for example MGSX for unemployment rate). Cite both.

Australia, AIHW

• The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare publishes reports with downloadable data tables (Excel). There is no general API; record the report title, table number, and release date.

Bulgaria, NSI

• nsi.bg publishes crime, population, and labor statistics as tables in Bulgarian and English. English tables sometimes lag; check the Bulgarian version for the newest year.

Thailand, NSO

• Provincial labor-force reports from the National Statistical Office are PDFs by quarter and province. Record page numbers.

General advice

• Prefer the office's own download over a third-party mirror, but record the mirror in case the office site is down; see Finding archived data.
• Note the release calendar. Many offices revise the previous quarter when they publish the next one.

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