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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 | TXT | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 1 | Searching for a specific election results can be quite hard using data.gouv.fr's search engine. Using the Etalab url helps a lot but this one is not well enough referenced to be found easily without knowing it |
| findable_steps | I searched "résultats des élections bureaux de vote" on data.gouv.fr then I filtered the tag "elections" and the source ministry of interior obtaining various datasets of different granularities https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/?q=élections&organization=534fff91a3a7292c64a77f53&tag=elections Then I found back in last year's OpenData index the list with direct links to all good datasets | |
| licence_url | https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence | |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | Data are divided in numerous files, opened with different formats and organized under various data structures. |
| collector_name | Ministère de l'intérieur | |
| characteristics | Results for major electoral contests, Number of registered votes, Number of invalid votes, Number of spoiled ballots, Data available at polling station level | |
| location | https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/le-ministere-de-linterieur-o - List of links to elections results datasets since 1999, https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/elections-legislat - Elections législatives 2012 , https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/elections-europeen - Elections européennes 2014 , https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/election-president - Election Presidentielle 2012 |
As submitter states, data are divided in numerous files, opened with different formats and organized under various data structures, although elections législatives 2012, Elections européennes 2014 and Election Presidentielle 2012 are available in TXT format. Format (submitted CSV and XLS) modified for TXT. As submitter notes, data is not easily discoverable. Data at the poll stations level takes multiple searches to be found on data.gouv.fr.