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diff --git a/datasets/usd_isk/README.md b/datasets/usd_isk/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc7791e --- /dev/null +++ b/datasets/usd_isk/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# USD - ISK exchange rate + +Due to the financial crisis the USD/ISK exchange rate shows potential change +point behaviour in the years around 2008. Since it is difficult to find freely +available (and permissively licensed) historical exchange rate data, we +instead use the monthly average Euro/ECU exchange rates of both USD and ISK +and compute the USD/ISK rate from there. + +The Euro/ECU exchange rate can be obtained from [this direct +link](https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?query=BOOKMARK_DS-054904_QID_-3F48645A_UID_-3F171EB0&layout=TIME,C,X,0;CURRENCY,L,Y,0;UNIT,L,Z,0;STATINFO,L,Z,1;INDICATORS,C,Z,2;&zSelection=DS-054904UNIT,NAC;DS-054904INDICATORS,OBS_FLAG;DS-054904STATINFO,AVG;&rankName1=UNIT_1_2_-1_2&rankName2=INDICATORS_1_2_-1_2&rankName3=STATINFO_1_2_-1_2&rankName4=TIME_1_0_0_0&rankName5=CURRENCY_1_2_0_1&sortC=ASC_-1_FIRST&rStp=&cStp=&rDCh=&cDCh=&rDM=true&cDM=true&footnes=false&empty=false&wai=false&time_mode=NONE&time_most_recent=false&lang=EN&cfo=%23%23%23%2C%23%23%23.%23%23%23). +The data is provided by Eurostat, and is Copyrighted to the European Union. +Redistribution of the data in this repository is allowed according to [this +copyright license](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about/policies/copyright). No +modification of the source data in ``ert_bil_eur_m_1_Data.csv`` has been made. + +The conversion script expects the CSV file format, with the following +configuration: + +- Full extraction (check) + + single file +- Flags and footnotes (check) +- Cell formatting + + 1 234.56 + +This file is included in the repository as ``ert_bil_eur_m_1_Data.csv``. +Additional metadata is stored in ``ert_bil_eur_m_Label.csv``. The file +``usd_isk.json`` can be obtained from the original data by running: + +``` +$ python convert.py ert_bil_eur_m_1_Data.csv usd_isk.json +``` + + |