Eurostat European Commission

SUMMARY

THIS PAGE EXPLAINS THE STEPS TAKEN TO PULL DATA SERIES FROM THE EUROSTAT EUROPEAN COMMISSION DATABASE.

STEPS TO PULL DATA FROM EUROSTAT EUROPEAN COMMISSION

1. First, navigate to https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/home.

Landing page for link above

2. Hover over the "Data" tab with your cursor to expand the data tab options.

3. Under Data, click on the database tab which will take you to a new page.

Screenshot of the database tab.

4. In the database landing page, you will see two tabs. One called "NEW DATA NAVIGATION TREE" and another tab called "DATABASE" which contains different themes and topic for data series. The New Data Navigation Tree tool under the first tab is user friendly and allows you to easily find data series by general topics, so we will rely on it in this example. See screenshot below.

Screenshot of first and second tab and Eurostat's New Navigation Tree tool.

5. Click on Eurostat's new data navigation tree hyperlink.

Screenshot of Eurostat's new data navigation tree hyperlink.

6. Once on the new landing page, you may choose any of the topics to find your data series. In this example, we will click on the "Transport" tab to find the data series "Railway transport - length of tacks".

Screenshot of Transport tab.

7. After clicking on Transport, we will expand the Railway Transport tab by clicking on the + symbol on the left.

Screenshot of Railway Transport.

8. Click on "Railway transport infrastructure", then click on "Railway transport - length of tracks" on the right-hand side of the tool.

Screenshot of tabs.

9. After clicking on "Railway transport - length of tracks", you will be able to see the data series and may manipulate the country and years selection by clicking on the drop down menu for each.

Screenshot of how to change country and years selections.

10. To download the desired selection, click on download and select the desired file type (e.g., csv).

Screenshot of step to download data series.