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(French) Les statistiques nationales clés : indicateurs démographiques et économiques telles que le Produit Intérieur brut (PIB), le chômage et les statistiques sur la population
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, DBF, HTML, PX, TSV, TXT, XLS, XML | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | But not at pooling station level (there you'll have to make many xml-requests) |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 4 | But I've looked for them many times before |
| findable_steps | Typed in the URL | |
| licence_url | https://www.dst.dk/da/omds/omweb | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | Depending on the purpose of course. |
| collector_name | The Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior | For generel elections. As for local elections municipals are responsible. |
| characteristics | Results for major electoral contests, Number of registered votes, Number of invalid votes, Number of spoiled ballots, Data available at polling station level | To get data at pooling station level you need to use the html or xml version |
| location | https://www.dst.dk/valg/xml.htm - Election results in xml, https://www.statistikbanken.dk/statbank5a/SelectVarVal/D - Elections results from Statistics Denmark downloadable in different formats, https://www.dst.dk/valg/Valg1664255/valgopg/valgopg.htm - Election results html |
Historical data from elections, such as parliamentary, regional and referendums, are available and easily findable through the website. About findability: On top of a search bar, on the Statistics site, there’s a subject called “Population and elections”, with a sub-category called “Elections”. There, you can find Elections to municipality councils, Elections to the European Parliament and Referendums data. After exploring selected data, it is one click to download in the selected format. By going to the websites containing XML and HTML data, the route to find the data is pretty straightforward. As the submitter stated, to get data at polling station level you need to use the HTML or XML version. You are not able to download the dataset in bulk at polling station level, for this you would need to make many XML requests. Submitter stated that for general elections, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior is in charge. As for local elections municipalities are responsible. As for timely publication, submitter stated that there are problems obtaining live data in full depth at election night. Data is given to major media sites but not in machine-readable format to the general public or minor media outlets.