Tables of the Algerian Statistical Yearbook — faithful extraction

Read this before buying: this product is not structured data. Each CSV row reproduces one table row as it appears in the document, its cells separated by a tab. The number of columns varies from table to table.

That choice is deliberate. These 145 tables span twelve themes and share no common shape: flattening them under a single schema would mean guessing, for each one, what its columns mean. An invented structure would be more dangerous than a faithful grid, because it would inspire a confidence it does not deserve.

What you are buying, then. The work of fetching these tables out of PDFs, cutting them up and making them machine-readable — the tedious part, done once and for all. Title, unit, chapter and source page accompany every table, so any figure can be traced back to the original document.

No arithmetic verification has been applied: it would require knowing what each column measures, which is precisely what this product does not claim to know. For verified data, see our “Demographics by wilaya” and “Industrial production and producer price indices” products.

Coverage: the territory, demography, employment, agriculture, industry, transport, posts and telecommunications, tourism, wages, public finance, money and credit, and national accounts chapters of Statistical Yearbook no. 30.