IPA04 — Structural Business Statistics
This dataset provides Structural Business Statistics for Ireland, published by the Central Statistics Office. It covers key indicators on the structure, activity, and performance of businesses across sectors of the national economy, such as employment, turnover, and value added. The data is freely accessible without authentication and is intended to support analysis of business demographics and economic trends at a national level. It falls under the government statistics theme and is tagged for business and economy topics, making it relevant for economic research and policy analysis concerning the Irish enterprise sector.Structural Business Statistics.
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Data schema (12 fields)
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C02212V03190 | text | Code for the nationality of ownership category.Code for the nationality of ownership category. |
| Nationality of OwnershipNationality of ownership | text | Ownership classification of the enterprise, e.g. Irish or foreign-owned.Ownership classification of the enterprise, e.g. Irish or foreign-owned. |
| C03057V03692 | text | Code identifying the persons engaged size band.Code identifying the persons engaged size band. |
| Sector | text | Economic sector or industry grouping of the enterprises.Economic sector or industry grouping of the enterprises. |
| C02175V02621 | int | Code identifying the statistical sector category.Code identifying the statistical sector category. |
| Persons EngagedPersons engaged | text | Size band based on number of persons engaged in the enterprise.Size band based on number of persons engaged in the enterprise. |
| TLIST(A1) | int | Annual time period code corresponding to the reference year.Annual time period code corresponding to the reference year. |
| Year | int | Reference year of the statistics.Reference year of the statistics. |
| STATISTIC | text | Code identifying the specific statistic measured.Code identifying the specific statistic measured. |
| Statistic LabelStatistic label | text | Descriptive name of the statistic and its unit.Descriptive name of the statistic and its unit. |
| UNIT | text | Unit of measurement for the value, such as percentage or euro thousand.Unit of measurement for the value, such as percentage or euro thousand. |
| VALUE | number | Numeric value recorded for the given statistic.Numeric value recorded for the given statistic. |
Schema inferred from the distribution file's first records 22 days ago. Column types are sampled estimates, not source-declared.
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Sample data (5 records)
Record 1UNIT: % · Year: 2015
{
"UNIT": "%",
"Year": "2015",
"VALUE": "39.9",
"Sector": "Industry (B to E)",
"STATISTIC": "IPA04C01",
"TLIST(A1)": "2015",
"C02175V02621": "44",
"C02212V03190": "IE",
"C03057V03692": "Y0900",
"Persons Engaged": "250 and over",
"Statistic Label": "Gross Value Added (%)",
"Nationality of Ownership": "Ireland"
}Record 2UNIT: Euro Thousand · Year: 2015
{
"UNIT": "Euro Thousand",
"Year": "2015",
"VALUE": "4342780",
"Sector": "Industry (B to E)",
"STATISTIC": "IPA04C02",
"TLIST(A1)": "2015",
"C02175V02621": "44",
"C02212V03190": "IE",
"C03057V03692": "Y0900",
"Persons Engaged": "250 and over",
"Statistic Label": "Gross Value Added (Euro Thousand)",
"Nationality of Ownership": "Ireland"
}Record 3UNIT: % · Year: 2015
{
"UNIT": "%",
"Year": "2015",
"VALUE": "29.9",
"Sector": "Industry (B to E)",
"STATISTIC": "IPA04C03",
"TLIST(A1)": "2015",
"C02175V02621": "44",
"C02212V03190": "IE",
"C03057V03692": "Y0900",
"Persons Engaged": "250 and over",
"Statistic Label": "Persons Engaged (%)",
"Nationality of Ownership": "Ireland"
}Record 4UNIT: Number · Year: 2015
{
"UNIT": "Number",
"Year": "2015",
"VALUE": "43433",
"Sector": "Industry (B to E)",
"STATISTIC": "IPA04C04",
"TLIST(A1)": "2015",
"C02175V02621": "44",
"C02212V03190": "IE",
"C03057V03692": "Y0900",
"Persons Engaged": "250 and over",
"Statistic Label": "Persons Engaged (Number)",
"Nationality of Ownership": "Ireland"
}Record 5UNIT: % · Year: 2015
{
"UNIT": "%",
"Year": "2015",
"VALUE": "60.1",
"Sector": "Industry (B to E)",
"STATISTIC": "IPA04C01",
"TLIST(A1)": "2015",
"C02175V02621": "442",
"C02212V03190": "IE",
"C03057V03692": "Y0900",
"Persons Engaged": "Under 250",
"Statistic Label": "Gross Value Added (%)",
"Nationality of Ownership": "Ireland"
}Live sample captured at profiling time — values may have changed upstream.
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Using the API
Query examples
curl -sL 'https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/IPA04/CSV/1.0/en' -o data.csvFull csv file download — the schema shown was inferred from the file's first records.
Dataset
Volume & freshness
Coverage
- First published
- 2021-07-09
License
No license declared upstream.
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Distributions (4)
Structural Business Statistics
https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/IPA04/CSV/1.0/enStructural Business Statistics
https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/IPA04/JSON-stat/1.0/enStructural Business Statistics
https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/IPA04/PX/2013/enStructural Business Statistics
https://ws.cso.ie/public/api.restful/PxStat.Data.Cube_API.ReadDataset/IPA04/XLSX/2007/en