ecifre/romania-economic-indicators

Romania Economic Indicators

Romania Economic Indicators is a structured collection of historical economic data for Romania, compiled and normalized by eCifre from official Romanian and European public sources.

eCifre makes Romanian economic data easier to discover, understand and compare.

Interactive charts, latest values, methodology and economic context: https://ecifre.ro

Dataset overview

The dataset contains historical time series covering:

• GDP and economic growth
• inflation
• wages and salaries
• employment and unemployment
• exchange rates
• public finance (budget revenue/expenditure, deficit, public debt)
• construction (cost index, building permits, completed dwellings)
• energy (natural gas and electricity consumption/production/prices)
• population and demographics
• county-level (regional) indicators for all 42 Romanian counties plus București

This is a subset of eCifre's full catalog (500+ indicators) — a representative starting set spanning 28 indicators, not everything eCifre tracks.

Data structure

One row per (indicator, geography, date) observation, sorted by indicator_slug, geography, then date.

Column	Description
indicator	Human-readable indicator name, in Romanian
indicator_slug	Stable eCifre identifier (e.g. inflatie-anuala-ro)
date	Observation / reference period
value	Observed value, exactly as published by the source
unit	Unit of measurement
geography	Romania for national indicators, or a county name (ASCII, e.g. Cluj, Timis) for county-level indicators
frequency	daily, monthly, quarterly, annual, or irregular
source	Original data provider's short code (e.g. INSSE, BNR)
source_url	Link to the original source
ecifre_url	Link to the indicator's page on eCifre — interactive chart, methodology, context
last_updated	Date eCifre's pipeline last successfully refreshed this indicator

Full column reference: DATA_DICTIONARY.md.

There are no null/blank cells — every row is a real, source-published value. If a period has no published value, that period simply has no row (so a series is not guaranteed to be perfectly regular).

Data sources

Data is derived from official institutions actually represented in this dataset:

• Institutul Național de Statistică (INSSE)
• Banca Națională a României (BNR)
• Eurostat
• Ministerul Finanțelor (MFIN)
• Agenția Națională pentru Ocuparea Forței de Muncă (ANOFM)
• ANRE — natural gas market data
• ENTSO-E Transparency Platform — European electricity market data
• Oficiul Național al Registrului Comerțului (ONRC)

Methodology

eCifre normalizes data from these different official sources to improve consistency across naming, dates, units, geographic entities, frequencies and historical time series. Each indicator keeps the definition and calculation method used by its original source — eCifre does not re-derive or re-estimate published figures.

Detailed, per-indicator methodology: https://ecifre.ro/indicatori

Use cases

• economic research
• journalism
• data science and data visualization
• education
• economic analysis
• AI / machine learning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and other LLM applications working with Romanian economic data

Limitations

• Source institutions publish on different schedules and sometimes revise historical values after initial publication — a value pulled today may differ slightly from the same period pulled later, if the source itself revised it.
• Methodology can differ between sources measuring related concepts (e.g. ILO/BIM unemployment vs. registered unemployment) — check source and the indicator's ecifre_url before comparing across indicators.
• Not every indicator has the same geographic or frequency coverage; some are national-only, others are county-level; some are daily, others annual.
• A few indicators currently have very short histories (occasionally a single observation) because that's genuinely all the source institution has published so far — not a loading error.
• eCifre is not the original statistical authority for any of this data. The institutions listed above remain the authoritative source for their respective figures; eCifre collects, normalizes and republishes what they publish.

Programmatic usage

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("ecifre/romania-economic-indicators")
print(dataset)

Filtering to a single indicator:

inflation = dataset["train"].filter(lambda row: row["indicator_slug"] == "inflatie-anuala-ro")
print(inflation.to_pandas().tail())

Attribution

eCifre — Romania Economic Indicators https://ecifre.ro

Citation

This dataset has a permanent, versioned snapshot on Zenodo with a DOI. If you use this dataset, please cite:

eCifre. Romania Economic Indicators. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22255140

The DOI above is the concept DOI (always resolves to the latest version); see CITATION.md in the source repository for the versioned DOI, APA and BibTeX formats.

License

See LICENSE — this dataset aggregates 8 institutions whose own publication terms are not uniform, so no single standard license (CC0, CC-BY, etc.) is asserted. Full reasoning: LICENSE_NOTES.md in the source repository.

About eCifre

eCifre is a Romanian platform for discovering, visualizing and understanding official economic data.

https://ecifre.ro