CSN statistics

Student finance figures straight out of CSN’s own statistical database, so a question about study debt or grant uptake is answered with the published series rather than an estimate.

What it is

CSN is the Swedish board of student finance. It publishes its statistics as open data through a PxWeb database, and this integration queries it directly.

The connection is stateless — nothing is indexed, nothing is stored, and there are no credentials involved.

Use it for

• “How has the number of students receiving study grants developed over the last ten years?”
• “What does study debt look like by age group?”
• “How many people are receiving the transition study support, and how has that changed?”
• “Find the table that covers repayment claims, and show me what dimensions it has.”

Tools

Function	Answers
Usage guide	How to find a table and then query it — the assistant reads this first
Key tables	The tables worth starting from, without browsing the whole tree
Browse database	The database structure, level by level
Table metadata	What a table contains: its variables, values and time range
Fetch table data	The actual figures, filtered to the variables and period asked for
Search tables	Tables matching a keyword

Data and permissions

• Open data (CC0), no key. Nothing about your organisation passes through.
• Stateless. No index, no cache, no stored query history.
• Read-only.

Getting started

Add the MCP server to an assistant and ask. No configuration.

Limitations

• Aggregate statistics only. Nothing here is about an individual — CSN does not publish person-level data and the integration cannot reach any.
• Sweden only.
• A table has to exist. If CSN does not publish a breakdown, the assistant will say so rather than derive one.
• The metadata step matters. Asking for a cut a table does not carry returns an error, not an approximation.