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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 | No | Uncertain how to answer this. In practice election results are public domain but there is no explicit statement saying this. |
| In an open and machine-readable format | XML | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 3 | |
| findable_steps | Entered "vēlēšanu rezultāti" in a search engine, followed the 1st result. Clicked on a submenu for the most recent parliamentary election, followed a link to a separate site with election results. | The last part - getting to a data file - is the difficult part. Once you get to the election result site (https://sv2014.cvk.lv/index_rez.html) you have to figure that the dataset is hidden under a link saying "XML". |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | Centrālā vēlēšanu komisija (Central Election Commission) | Central Election Commission: https://www.cvk.lv/pub/public/28018.html |
| 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.cvk.lv/pub/public/27093.html - Main landing page for election results, https://sv2014.cvk.lv/index_rez.html - 12. Saeimas vēlēšanas (Parliamentary election 2014), https://sv2014.cvk.lv/RezultsXml.gzip - Data file | The Election commission also has results for the European Parliament election 2014 but not in a machine-readable form: https://ep2014.cvk.lv/Part-7-Strukt-1.html |
Submission is valid. Data is available in XML format. Submitter states that getting to a data file is the difficult part. Once you get to the election result site you have to figure that the dataset is hidden under a link saying "XML".