statcodelists

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The goal of statcodelists is to promote the reuse and exchange of statistical information and related metadata with making the internationally standardized SDMX code lists available for the R user. SDMX has been published as an ISO International Standard (ISO 17369). The metadata definitions, including the codelists are updated regularly according to the standard. The authoritative version of the code lists made available in this package is https://sdmx.org/?page_id=3215/.

Installation

You can install the development version of statcodelists like so:

devtools::install_github("antaldaniel/statcodelists")

Cross-domain concepts in the SDMX framework describe concepts relevant to many, if not all, statistical domains. SDMX recommends using these concepts whenever feasible in SDMX structures and messages to promote the reuse and exchange of statistical information and related metadata between organisations.

Code lists are predefined sets of terms from which some statistical coded concepts take their values. SDMX cross-domain code lists are used to support cross-domain concepts. The use of common code lists will help users to work even more efficiently, easing the maintenance of and reducing the need for mapping systems and interfaces delivering data and metadata to them. Therefore, a choice over code lists has a great impact on the efficiency of data sharing.

statcodelists helps the use of the latest codelist in your R workflow.

library(statcodelists)
data("codebooks")
concept codebook authority
Activity CL_ACTIVITY SDMX
Age CL_AGE SDMX
Civil or marital status CL_CIVIL_STATUS SDMX
Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) CL_COICOP SDMX
Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) CL_COFOG SDMX
Classification of the Outlays of Producers According to Purpose (COPP) CL_COPP SDMX
Classification of the Purposes of Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households COPNI CL_COPNI SDMX
Confidentiality status CL_CONF_STATUS SDMX
Currency CL_CURRENCY SDMX
Decimals CL_DECIMALS SDMX
Degree of Urbanisation CL_DEG_URB SDMX
Frequency CL_FREQ SDMX
Geographical areas CL_AREA SDMX
Observation status CL_OBS_STATUS SDMX
Occupation CL_OCCUPATION SDMX
Organisation concepts CL_ORGANISATION SDMX
Seasonal adjustment CL_SEASONAL_ADJUST SDMX
Sex CL_SEX SDMX
Time format CL_TIME_FORMAT SDMX
Time period – collection CL_TIME_PER_COLLECT SDMX
Unit multiplier CL_UNIT_MULT SDMX

Example: Codelist Frequency

data("CL_FREQ")
id name description name_locale description_locale
A Annual To be used for data collected or disseminated every year en en
A2 Biennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every two years en en
A3 Triennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every three years en en
A4 Quadrennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every four years en en
A5 Quinquennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every five years en en
A10 Decennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every ten years en en
A20 Bidecennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every twenty years en en
A30 Tridecennial To be used for data collected or disseminated every thirty years en en
A_3 Three times a year To be used for data collected or disseminated three times a year en en
S Half-yearly, semester To be used for data collected or disseminated every semester en en
Q Quarterly To be used for data collected or disseminated every quarter en en
M Monthly To be used for data collected or disseminated every month en en
M2 Bimonthly To be used for data collected or disseminated every two months en en
M_2 Semimonthly To be used for data collected or disseminated twice a month en en
M_3 Three times a month To be used for data collected or disseminated three times a month en en
W Weekly To be used for data collected or disseminated every week en en
W2 Biweekly To be used for data collected or disseminated every two weeks en en
W3 Triweekly To be used for data collected or disseminated every three weeks en en
W4 Four-weekly To be used for data collected or disseminated every four weeks en en
W_2 Semiweekly To be used for data collected or disseminated twice a week en en
W_3 Three times a week To be used for data collected or disseminated three times a week en en
D Daily To be used for data collected or disseminated every day en en
D_2 Twice a day To be used for data collected or disseminated twice a day en en
H Hourly To be used for data collected or disseminated every hour en en
H2 Bihourly To be used for data collected or disseminated every two hours en en
H3 Trihourly To be used for data collected or disseminated every three hours en en
B Daily – business week Similar to “daily”, however there are no observations for Saturdays and Sundays (so, neither “missing values” nor “numeric values” should be provided for Saturday and Sunday) en en
N Minutely While N denotes “minutely”, usually, there may be no observations every minute (for several series the frequency is usually “irregular” within a day/days). And though observations may be sparse (not collected or disseminated every minute), missing values do not need to be given for the minutes when no observations exist: in any case the time stamp determines when an observation is observed en en
I Irregular To be used with irregular time series that stores data for a sequence of arbitrary timepoints. Irregular time series are appropriate when the data arrives unpredictably, such as when the application records every stock trade or when random events are recorded (the interval between each element can be a different length) en en
OA Occasional annual The event occurs occasionally with an infrequent update that could span from 1 year to several years between events. It implies a survey that experiences a gap for several years prior to the next survey update (this is commonly linked to funding available to run a specific survey (i.e. health surveys), whereas a regular annual survey refers typically to ‘programs’ that are funded regularly and fall under the Statistics Act, and therefore never experience a gap) en en
OM Occasional monthly The event occurs occasionally with an infrequent update that could span from 1 month to several months between events. It implies a survey that experiences a gap for several months prior to the next survey update en en
_O Other To be used when the qualitative or quantitative values that a variable takes in a data set is associated to multiple occurrences with frequency other than the already defined ones (for example every 5 hours and 32 minutes etc.) en en
_U Unspecified To be used when a set of values are reported within a time range but not associated to sub ranges. Often this could happen in case of missing or sparse information. (Let’s say we have two observations for 2020 but we do not know if they are part of a monthly reporting or quarterly reporting) en en
_Z Not applicable To be used when the qualitative or quantitative values that a variable takes in a data set is not associated to multiple occurrences (only single occurrence exists) one can use the _Z as frequency en en

Further recommended code values for expressing general statistical concepts like not applicable, etc., can be found in section Generic codes of the Guidelines for the creation and management of SDMX Cross-Domain Code Lists.

For further codelists used by reliable statistical agency but not harmonized on SDMX level please consult the SDMX Global Registry Codelists page.

The creator of this package is not affiliated with SDMX, and this package was has not been endorsed by SDMX.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the statcodelists project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.