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

## United Kingdom, ONS

- The [ONS API](https://developer.ons.gov.uk/) 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](https://www.aihw.gov.au/) 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](https://www.nsi.bg/en) 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](https://www.nso.go.th/) 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.

## Verified examples

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