============ Helper Functions ============ The package provides three helper functions to provide the user with information about regions, statistics and the availability of data for region-statistic combinations. Helper functions are part of the ``datenguidepy.query_helper`` module but can also be imported from ``datenguidepy`` directly. **get_statistics** - List the statstic codes available in the API - Gives a short and long description for the corresponding statistic - Default description language is German - Provides a machine translated version of the descriptions in english **get_regions** - Lists the region ids used to construct queries - Contains a human readable name of the region - Contains the european statistical calssfication of the region (nuts/lau) - Contains the id of the parent region **get_availability_summary** - Lists all combination of statsitics with regions down to nuts 3 level. - For each combination provids the size of the corresponding data set - For each combination prvides the first and the last year of available data - Does not include lau regions - Does not include information about ENUMs