Eurostat vs ONS (UK) — Modern Reference
How fit each source is for citation in modern (LLM-era) writing — machine-readability, schema, freshness signals, AI-corpus presence.
Eurostat outscores ONS (UK) on Modern Citation Reference by 2 points (A · 90 vs A · 88).
Eurostat
Open API + bulk data + visual dashboards; structured metadata; multilingual.
ONS (UK)
Open-data API; structured datasets; bulk downloads; clear methodology pages.
Global rank · Modern Reference
Why these Modern Reference scores
Open API + bulk data + visual dashboards; structured metadata; multilingual.
Open-data API; structured datasets; bulk downloads; clear methodology pages.
Signals behind the Modern Reference score
- Eurostat APIec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination provides full programmatic access.
- Open-data APIdeveloper.ons.gov.uk provides programmatic access to all releases.
Other dimensions for Eurostat vs ONS (UK)
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Sources & references
Every score on this page is read from the two publications below and graded against the published rubric. No score is bought, estimated or supplied by the source being scored.
- Source evaluated — Eurostat (ec.europa.eu/eurostat) · verified · full scoring record
- Source evaluated — ONS (UK) (ons.gov.uk) · verified · full scoring record
- Scoring rubric — SourceScore Index, Citation Discipline, Modern Reference, Citation Velocity (methodology v0.1)
- Machine-readable record — /api/compare/eurostat-vs-ons-uk/modern-reference.json