Table 2 Overview and explanations of the column names of the data tables ‘Raw_data.csv’ and ‘Final_data.csv’.

From: German yield and area data for 11 crops from 1979 to 2021 at a harmonized spatial resolution of 397 districts

Column name

Explanation

district_no

Official identifier of the district according to the German Federal Statistical Office. The first two digits encode the federal states of Germany, and the remaining three digits encode the district of the federal state.

district

Official district name.

nuts_id

District identifier according to the European NUTS 3 classification scheme.

year

Year of harvest.

var

Variable name (see Table 3).

measure

Measure of the variable, being either ‘yield’ or ‘area’.

value

Value for the respective district, year, variable and measure. Yield values are reported in t/ha, and area values are reported in ha.

outlier (only in Final_data.csv)

Flags missing values that were deleted during the outlier-detection procedure (1 if outlier, else 0).