🇸🇪 Statistics Sweden (SCB) Scraper

🚀 Export any official Swedish statistic in seconds. Browse the SCB tree, inspect a table's variables, or query the actual data points (population, GDP, employment, prices, trade, education, regional). No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The Statistics Sweden (SCB) Scraper wraps the official SCB open data API (api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris) and turns the JSON-stat response into flat rows. The underlying dataset is published by Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån), the Swedish government agency that has compiled national statistics since 1858.

The catalog covers every subject area SCB tracks. Population, labour market, national accounts, prices and consumption, trade, education, agriculture, environment, transport, public finance, living conditions, and regional breakdowns down to municipality level. This Actor returns table metadata, variable lists, or fully expanded data points with one dimension combination per row, ready to download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Economists, journalists, GIS analysts, demographers, fintech and proptech teams, academic researchers, public-sector planners, data engineers	Population pyramids, regional dashboards, inflation tracking, labour-market reports, ESG benchmarks, OSM enrichment, longitudinal studies

📋 What the Statistics Sweden Scraper does

Three operating modes in a single Actor:

• 🌳 Browse mode. Walks the SCB tree starting from any node. Empty path returns the 20+ top-level subject areas (BE for population, AM for labour, NR for national accounts, PR for prices). Drill down a level at a time to discover tables.
• 📑 Table mode. Returns one row per dimension of a single table. Each row lists the variable code, label, value count, and a sample of valid codes plus their localized labels. Use this to figure out which filter codes to send before pulling the data.
• 📊 Data mode. POSTs a JSON-stat query against a table endpoint and decodes the multi-dimensional response into flat rows. One row per dimension combination, with the numeric value, every dimension code, every localized label, the unit (persons, SEK, percent, etc.), and the source URL.

Output language switches between English and Swedish on a single input field. The Actor automatically caps unfiltered dimension queries so SCB does not reject them as too large.

💡 Why it matters: Sweden publishes one of the deepest open national-statistics catalogs in Europe, but the raw JSON-stat format is hostile to spreadsheets. This Actor decodes the cube into flat rows you can drop into BI tools, dashboards, or training datasets without writing a parser.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: id, scrapedAt, text, type, url. All 5 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Statistics Sweden (SCB) Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🌳 Browse first. Set mode: "browse" with an empty path to see all subject areas. Drill down until you find a table.
4. 📑 Inspect the table. Switch to mode: "table" and set tableId to the full path. Read the variable codes.
5. 📊 Query data. Switch to mode: "data", set dataFilters to scope the slice, click Start.
6. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån) or the Swedish government. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data from the official SCB API is collected.

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