National Statistics / 2013 70% open

What data is expected?

Key national statistics such as demographic and economic indicators (GDP, unemployment, population, etc). Aggregate data (e.g. GDP for whole country at a quarterly level, or population at an annual level) is also considered acceptable in this data category. In general, answers of 'yes' in this category refers to entries with a reasonable amount of both economic and demographic information available.

What data is available

•   Does the data exist? Yes
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Publicly available? Yes
•   Is the data available for free? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
•   Is the data machine readable? Yes (XLS, CSV, HTML, PDF)
•   Available in bulk? Yes
•   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes

Details

The national statistics office publishes statistics at https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Publikationen.html and statistical data at https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis/online/data It is available in in XLS offer and formats, however the quality of the machine readable data is abysmal.

The general Copyright statement is essentially saying that you can reuse the data provided attribution is given, but you are not allowed to change or manipulate the information: "© Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden 2013. Sie können Informationen speichern, (auch auszugsweise) mit Quellenangabe weitergeben, vervielfältigen und verbreiten sowie Links zur Homepage des Statistischen Bundesamtes legen. Die Informationen dürfen im Übrigen nicht verändert oder verfälscht werden." which makes it not openly licensed. At http://www.govdata.de the same data is available under the German "Datenlizenz Deutschland" which has been revied and considered not comliant with the Open Definition in Version 1.0. A process to address these issues are underway with version 2.0 of the "Datenlizenz Deutschland".