variables

This table contains all the variables of all the datasets we have at Our World In Data. Note that this includes only the information about the variables like name and default display settings, not the data itself.

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2 rows where datasetId = 6138 sorted by id descending

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id ▲ name unit description createdAt updatedAt code coverage timespan datasetId sourceId shortUnit display columnOrder originalMetadata grapherConfigAdmin shortName catalogPath dimensions schemaVersion processingLevel processingLog titlePublic titleVariant attributionShort attribution descriptionShort descriptionFromProducer descriptionKey descriptionProcessing licenses license grapherConfigETL type sort dataChecksum metadataChecksum
738069 Solar photovoltaic cumulative capacity megawatts Global cumulative capacity of solar photovoltaics. 2023-07-20 13:41:55 2023-12-14 12:11:30     1975-2022 Solar photovoltaic cost and capacity (Energy, 2023b) 6138 G. F. Nemet (2009) via Performance Curve Database; International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) 28072 MW 
{
    "unit": "megawatts",
    "shortUnit": "MW",
    "numDecimalPlaces": 0
}
 0     cumulative_capacity grapher/energy/2023-07-10/photovoltaic_cost_and_capacity/photovoltaic_cost_and_capacity#cumulative_capacity   1                 
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[
    {
        "url": "https://pcdb.santafe.edu/graph.php?curve=158",
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License"
    },
    {
        "url": "https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2023/Mar/IRENA_RE_Capacity_Statistics_2023.pdf",
        "name": "Copyright \u00a9 IRENA 2023"
    }
]
            
738068 Solar photovoltaic module price 2021 US$ per Watt Global average price of solar photovoltaic modules. IRENA presents solar PV module price series for a number of different module technologies. Here we have adopted the series for thin film a-Si/u-Si or Global Index (from Q4 2013). 2023-07-20 13:41:55 2023-12-14 12:11:29     1975-2021 Solar photovoltaic cost and capacity (Energy, 2023b) 6138 G. F. Nemet (2009) via Performance Curve Database; J. D. Farmer & F. Lafond (2016); International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) 28654 $/W 
{
    "unit": "2021 US$ per Watt",
    "shortUnit": "$/W"
}
 0     cost grapher/energy/2023-07-10/photovoltaic_cost_and_capacity/photovoltaic_cost_and_capacity#cost   1                 
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[
    {
        "url": "https://pcdb.santafe.edu/graph.php?curve=158",
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License"
    },
    {
        "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699",
        "name": "Creative Commons 4.0"
    },
    {
        "url": "https://irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2022/Jul/IRENA_Renewable_Power_Generation_Costs_2021.pdf",
        "name": "Copyright IRENA 2021"
    }
]
            

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CREATE TABLE "variables" (
	"id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
	"name" VARCHAR(750) NULL  ,
	"unit" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL  ,
	"description" TEXT NULL  ,
	"createdAt" DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ,
	"updatedAt" DATETIME NULL  ,
	"code" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"coverage" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL  ,
	"timespan" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL  ,
	"datasetId" INTEGER NOT NULL  ,
	"sourceId" INTEGER NULL  ,
	"shortUnit" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"display" TEXT NOT NULL  ,
	"columnOrder" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' ,
	"originalMetadata" TEXT NULL  ,
	"grapherConfigAdmin" TEXT NULL  ,
	"shortName" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"catalogPath" VARCHAR(767) NULL  ,
	"dimensions" TEXT NULL  ,
	"schemaVersion" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT '1' ,
	"processingLevel" VARCHAR(30) NULL  ,
	"processingLog" TEXT NULL  ,
	"titlePublic" VARCHAR(512) NULL  ,
	"titleVariant" VARCHAR(255) NULL  ,
	"attributionShort" VARCHAR(512) NULL  ,
	"attribution" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionShort" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionFromProducer" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionKey" TEXT NULL  ,
	"descriptionProcessing" TEXT NULL  ,
	"licenses" TEXT NULL  ,
	"license" TEXT NULL  ,
	"grapherConfigETL" TEXT NULL  ,
	"type" TEXT NULL  ,
	"sort" TEXT NULL  ,
	"dataChecksum" VARCHAR(64) NULL  ,
	"metadataChecksum" VARCHAR(64) NULL,
	FOREIGN KEY("datasetId") REFERENCES "datasets" ("id") ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT,
	FOREIGN KEY("sourceId") REFERENCES "sources" ("id") ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "idx_catalogPath" ON "variables" ("catalogPath");
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "unique_short_name_per_dataset" ON "variables" ("shortName", "datasetId");
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "variables_code_fk_dst_id_7bde8c2a_uniq" ON "variables" ("code", "datasetId");
CREATE INDEX "variables_datasetId_50a98bfd_fk_datasets_id" ON "variables" ("datasetId");
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX "variables_name_fk_dst_id_f7453c33_uniq" ON "variables" ("name", "datasetId");
CREATE INDEX "variables_sourceId_31fce80a_fk_sources_id" ON "variables" ("sourceId");