The Catalogue API provides information on the current listing of disseminated data products.

TOC - Eurostat table of contents

When interested in working with from Eurostat navigation tree , a classification of Eurostat datasets into hierarchical categories, it is possible to retrieve a TXT or XML representation named "table of contents" (TOC)

Please consult API - Detailed guidelines - Catalogue API - TOC for the information provided by each format

DCAT - Data Catalogue Vocabulary

The catalogue of datasets can be retrieved as a set of RDF files expressed following Data Catalogue Vocabulary - Application Profile (DCAT-AP).

This data catalogue is sent by Eurostat to https://data.europa.eu/en portal on a daily basis.

RSS feed

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a type of web feed that allows users to access updates to online content in a standardised, computer-readable format.

It allows to be informed about the last changes carried out to data products and code lists published by Eurostat.

Here are the URL’s of the RSS feeds:

• English version: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/rss/en/statistics-update.rss 

• German version: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/rss/de/statistics-update.rss 

• French version: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/catalogue/rss/fr/statistics-update.rss 

For further details, please refer to API - Detailed guidelines - Catalogue API - RSS

Eurostat metabase.txt.gz

The metabase file includes the structure definition of all available Eurostat datasets via the API i.e. the dimensions codes used and their related positions codes in a delimiter-separated format separated by tabulations (TAB). One line of this file as the structure "Dataset Code TAB Dimension Code TAB Position Code" .

This list is alphabetically sorted on dataset code then dimension code and finally on position code list order.

Example for the "Agricultural Labour Input Statistics: absolute figures (1 000 annual work units)" dataset which is identified by the "aact_ali01" code.

aact_ali01	geo	EU
aact_ali01	geo	EU27_2020_EFTA
aact_ali01	geo	EU27_2020
aact_ali01	geo	EU28
aact_ali01	geo	EU27_2007
[...]
aact_ali01	geo	UK
aact_ali01	itm_newa	40000
aact_ali01	itm_newa	41000
aact_ali01	itm_newa	42000
aact_ali01	time	2022
aact_ali01	time	2021
[...]
aact_ali01	time	1973
  

This file can be loaded in Excel or processed with text manipulation tool of choice