Statistical indicators on child wellbeing in Iceland: health, happiness, education, safety, opportunities, living standards, social relationships, family life, participation, and influence on decisions.

Run by Barna- og fjölskyldustofa (BOFS), operational since 1 January 2022 (merged from Barnaverndarstofa). Explicitly named in the Hagtalnanefnd report (March 2026, footnote 71) as an example of a dashboard where raw data is not made available — only the dashboard and reports.

Landing page

https://farsaeldbarna.is/ — consolidates statistical data underpinning the Farsældarlögin (Child Wellbeing Act, enacted 2022).

Power BI dashboard

Property	Value
Tenant	`bc14a44e-e0fb-4e0b-a535-100579d41b65`
Report key	`1fcb76a3-b53d-4ba1-a5c9-434d8c346408`
Embed URL	`https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=<base64>` — see `scripts/farsaeld_barna.py`

Organized around five "foundations" of wellbeing (implementation framework from Farsældarlögin). Specific indicators not listed on the landing page — enumerate them from scraped Power BI descriptors.

Extraction

Playwright-intercept pattern, but note: this dashboard is a "publish to web" Power BI with static embedded data, not live DAX queries. The data lives in the modelsAndExploration endpoint response (~2 MB JSON), not in executeQueries. The scraper captures: modelsAndExploration, conceptualschema, and resourcePackage blobs. No auth needed.

Script usage

uv run python scripts/farsaeld_barna.py fetch

Data files

Path	Format	Description
`data/raw/farsaeld_barna/powerbi.json`	JSON	Raw Power BI `executeQueries` responses

Caveats

No raw data download. The Hagtalnanefnd report flags this dashboard as one where grunngögn (raw data) are not made available to users — only the dashboard itself. Scraping the Power BI responses is the only route to structured data.
Stale series warning. Because the data aggregation is across many agency feeds (Hagstofa, HMS, Landlæknir, police, schools), individual indicators may lag the agency's own dashboard. Check the "last updated" text on each tile.
Overlap with source datasets. Many underlying series are already reachable more directly via hagstofan, landlaeknir, or reykjavik (municipality-level welfare data). Prefer source when available.
Attribution. Data sourced from multiple public agencies — BOFS coordinates but does not own the underlying series.
Encoding. Power BI modelsAndExploration payload is UTF-8 throughout (Icelandic chars in dimension labels and indicator titles). Write JSON with ensure_ascii=False and read with encoding="utf-8".

Complementary sources

Source	Overlap
hagstofan	Education, demographics, living conditions
landlaeknir	Child health, vaccination, dental health
reykjavik	Municipal welfare services for children
domstolar	Child-related court rulings

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Farsæld barna — Child Wellbeing Dashboard

Landing page

https://farsaeldbarna.is/ — consolidates statistical data underpinning the Farsældarlögin (Child Wellbeing Act, enacted 2022).

Power BI dashboard

Property

Value

Tenant

bc14a44e-e0fb-4e0b-a535-100579d41b65

Report key

1fcb76a3-b53d-4ba1-a5c9-434d8c346408

Embed URL

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=<base64> — see scripts/farsaeld_barna.py

Extraction

Script usage

uv run python scripts/farsaeld_barna.py fetch

Data files

Path

Format

Description

data/raw/farsaeld_barna/powerbi.json

JSON

Raw Power BI executeQueries responses

Caveats

No raw data download. The Hagtalnanefnd report flags this dashboard as one where grunngögn (raw data) are not made available to users — only the dashboard itself. Scraping the Power BI responses is the only route to structured data.

Stale series warning. Because the data aggregation is across many agency feeds (Hagstofa, HMS, Landlæknir, police, schools), individual indicators may lag the agency's own dashboard. Check the "last updated" text on each tile.

Overlap with source datasets. Many underlying series are already reachable more directly via hagstofan, landlaeknir, or reykjavik (municipality-level welfare data). Prefer source when available.

Attribution. Data sourced from multiple public agencies — BOFS coordinates but does not own the underlying series.

Encoding. Power BI modelsAndExploration payload is UTF-8 throughout (Icelandic chars in dimension labels and indicator titles). Write JSON with ensure_ascii=False and read with encoding="utf-8".

Complementary sources

Source

Overlap

hagstofan

Education, demographics, living conditions

landlaeknir

Child health, vaccination, dental health

reykjavik

Municipal welfare services for children

domstolar

Child-related court rulings