See http://www.pc-axis.scb.se
PC-Axis and PX-Web are software used in several countries for dissemination of official statistics. PC-Axis is a windows browser and PX-Web is for the Web and both are based on the PC-Axis file format. The PC-Axis file format is very meta data rich and should be a nice way to forward statistics into the Gapminder/Google/Trendalyzer. Most of the data are in time series. A lot of data is available in this format from many National Statistical Offices over the world. Some countries in Europe: Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe etc. Links to these websites are available in the link above.
The PC-Axis file format is an open format in plain ascii and should be very easy to utilize as input for Trendalyzer. Perhaps this is something for Google to check.
Lars Nordback, mailto:lars.nordback@scb.se
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