Where the data come from
Northline does not collect its own economic statistics. Every figure comes from a published source; every chart states its source, its period and any licence conditions.
Publishers and how they are credited
Each chart carries its own attribution line.
- Statistics Canada
- Contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence. Charts and tables state: “Adapted from Statistics Canada; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.” Each names its table number.
- Bank of Canada
- Interest rates, exchange rates and commodity price indexes from the Bank of Canada Valet service, used under the Bank’s terms and attributed on each chart.
- World Bank
- World Development Indicators and the Commodity Price Data (the Pink Sheet), used under CC BY 4.0 with no changes to values. Country aggregates are the World Bank’s. Indicators that originate with another organization follow that organization’s terms.
- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
- Housing starts, completions, under-construction counts, average rents and rental vacancy rates, as published through Statistics Canada tables and CMHC releases.
- Eurostat
- Euro area and member-state series produced by Eurostat, reused with the source acknowledged and any changes indicated.
- European Central Bank
- Interest rate, yield and exchange rate series, credited to the ECB and published at their original levels.
- US Federal Reserve Board
- Selected interest rates from the H.15 release, cited to the Board.
- UK Office for National Statistics
- Series published under the Open Government Licence.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Series retrieved through the BLS public API, with the retrieval date. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.
- Natural Earth
- Map boundaries from Natural Earth (public domain).
- Other publishers
- Budgets, forecasts, reports and press releases from governments, agencies, banks and international bodies are registered individually with the publisher, title, date and exact wording quoted, and are linked from the page that uses them.
Not all data may be redistributed commercially
Reading a series here is not a right to resell it.
Each publisher’s licence decides what may be done with its data. Reading a series on this site gives you no right to resell or republish it, and neither a paid plan nor a research project changes that. Exports carry their source and attribution, and those conditions stay with the data.
These can be read on the free site but are left out of exports and paid work until their terms for paid use are settled:
- Average rents
- Statistics Canada table 34-10-0133-01, which originates with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
- Rental vacancy rates
- Statistics Canada table 34-10-0130-01, which originates with CMHC.
- Housing starts, completions and units under construction
- Statistics Canada tables 34-10-0154-01 and 34-10-0158-01, which also originate with CMHC.
- Some World Bank indicators
- Those that originate with the International Monetary Fund, the International Labour Organization or the International Comparison Program.
- European Central Bank series
- The terms found do not address automated retrieval.
Other data is never published at all, because its source does not allow it or has not confirmed that it may be used. The methodology page lists it. If you want to reuse data, read the publisher’s licence or ask the publisher. The terms of service say what Northline allows.
What is withheld or not covered
Stated, not hidden.
- A dataset whose licence does not allow redistribution is withheld. For example, project-register records whose reuse terms have not been confirmed by the publisher are not shown.
- Sources can revise published values. The observation date and retrieval date on each chart identify the version shown.
- Statistical agencies do not endorse this publication.
See also the methodology and sources page and the editorial standards.