Simplified CSV (comma-separated values) table

The tabular data export is targeted at analysts who wish to access the OpenSanctions data in a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel (help: open CSV in Excel).

Unfortunately, the structure of persons of interest data does not easily lend itself to a simple tabular form. For example, a person might have multiple nationalities, or have been a member of several political parties in their career.

There are countless ways to generate CSV excerpts from OpenSanctions. If you would like to work with us to build an export format that's ideally suited for your use case, please get in touch.

The "Simplified CSV" format addresses this by presenting a highly limited view of the data, in which only a select set of key columns is provided. These include:

• id: the unique identifier of the given entity.
• schema: the entity type.
• name: the display name of the given entity.
• aliases: any alias names (e.g. other scripts, nom de guerre) provided by the data sources.
• birth_date: for people, their birth date.
• countries: a list of countries linked to this entity. Includes countries of residence, nationalities and corporate jurisdictions.
• addresses: a list of known addresses for the entity.
• identifiers: identifiers such as corporate registrations, passport numbers or tax identifiers linked to this sanctions target.
• sanctions: details regarding the sanctions designation, if any.
• phones: a list of phone numbers in E.164 format.
• emails: a list of email addresses linked to the entity.
• dataset: the dataset this entity is in.
• last_seen: the last time this entity was observed in source data.
• first_seen: the earliest date this entity has been noticed by OpenSanctions.

Further technical notes:

• The CSV is formatted using , (comma) as a delimiter, encoded as utf-8.
• Some fields in the CSV can contain multiple values in one cell. These are stored as a nested CSV using the ; (semicolon) delimiter.
• The export contains only targeted entities, not all entities in the dataset.

Statement-based CSV format

You may also be interested in our statement-based CSV exports, which provide a high-fidelity way to import provenanced OpenSanctions claims into a system.