istatlab: Download and Process Italian Statistical Data from ISTAT

A toolkit for downloading and processing Italian statistical data from ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica). Supports both the SDMX API (esploradati.istat.it) for any published dataset and static CSV downloads (demo.istat.it) for demographic data including population, births, deaths, migrations, and projections. Provides functions for data retrieval, metadata handling, caching, and data processing with automatic label application.

The istatlab package provides a toolkit for downloading and processing Italian statistical data from ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica). It supports both the SDMX API (esploradati.istat.it) for any published dataset and static CSV downloads (demo.istat.it) for demographic data including population, births, deaths, migrations, and projections.

Statistical Data (SDMX API)

Data Download:: download_istat_data(), download_multiple_datasets(), test_endpoint_connectivity()
Metadata Management:: download_metadata(), download_codelists(), get_dataset_dimensions()
Data Processing:: apply_labels(), filter_by_time(), validate_istat_data()

Demographic Data (demo.istat.it)

Dataset Discovery:: list_demo_datasets(), search_demo_datasets(), get_demo_dataset_info(), get_demo_categories()
Data Download:: download_demo_data(), download_demo_data_multi(), download_demo_data_batch()
Cache Management:: demo_cache_status(), clean_demo_cache()

HVD (High Value Datasets)

Data Download:: download_hvd_data(), download_istat_data(api = "hvd_v1")
Metadata:: list_hvd_dataflows(), test_hvd_connectivity(), get_hvd_info()
Configuration:: validate_api_surface()

Package workflow

A typical workflow with istatlab involves:

Download metadata and identify datasets of interest
Download the actual data using dataset IDs
Process and label the data

Author

Maintainer: Giampaolo Montaletti giampaolo.montaletti@gmail.com (ORCID)