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Nomis API (ONS Labour Market and Census Statistics)

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Nomis API (ONS Labour Market and Census Statistics)

Nomis, provided by Durham University on behalf of the Office for National Statistics, serves UK labour market, benefits and census statistics down to small areas through a keyless API in CSV, JSON and SDMX formats.

Required Attribution:

Required under the OGL: acknowledge ONS / Nomis as the source.

Coverage

UK labour market, benefit and census tables (dataset ids NM_*). History and update frequency vary by dataset: Not stated on the pages read.

Verdict

Keyless Nomis API. Licensed Custom (Open Government Licence, version not named; the page links the unversioned OGL address): the copyright page says "Under the terms of the Open Government Licence (OGL) and UK Government Licensing Framework (launched 30 September 2010), anyone wishing to use or re-use ONS material, whether commercially or privately, may do so freely without a specific application for a licence, subject to the conditions of the OGL and the Framework." Signal Lab links only.

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