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Data Sources

Version: 2026-10-27

This page is part of the SaysData Cloud Service Agreement. SaysData's data comes from the publishers below. Each publisher's own licence or terms govern its data, and you must comply with them when you use outputs.

The summaries below are for convenience; the publisher's own text controls. None of these publishers endorses SaysData, you, or any output.

We may change this page at any time, including adding or removing sources (Additional Terms §8(a) in the Cover Page).

Statistics Canada

Licence: Statistics Canada Open Licence

  • Permitted: Commercial use and adaptations are allowed.
  • Attribution when you reproduce data unchanged: "Source: Statistics Canada, name of product, reference date. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada."
  • Attribution when you adapt data (calculations, combinations, charts): "Adapted from Statistics Canada, name of product, reference date. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product."
  • Endorsement: Do not use the data in a way that suggests Statistics Canada endorses you or your use of it.
  • Re-identification: Do not merge or link the data with other databases to try to identify an individual person, business, or organization.

OECD

Terms: OECD Terms and Conditions. They allow you to extract, download, copy, adapt, distribute and share OECD data for any purpose, including commercial use, except where additional restrictions apply. (The OECD's Creative Commons licence covers its written content, not its data.)

  • Exceptions: Some OECD data is owned wholly or partly by third parties, or carries additional restrictions. The OECD shows this in the dataset's metadata or on its "source" tab on the OECD site. Check before relying on the general terms.
  • Attribution: Use the citation the OECD gives for the data. If there is none, cite: "OECD (year), (dataset name), (data source) DOI or URL (accessed on (date))."
  • Sharing: If you share or license work created using OECD data, include the same attribution requirement in any sub-licence you grant, and require any further sub-licensees to do the same.
  • OECD logo: Do not use the OECD logo without the OECD's express written permission.

Eurostat

Licence: Eurostat's reuse policy allows reuse of its statistical data, including commercial reuse, if you acknowledge the source. The policy implements the European Commission's reuse Decision of 12 December 2011 (2011/833/EU). See the Eurostat copyright notice.

  • Attribution: Acknowledge Eurostat as the source.

    • For a whole dataset, cite its DOI and your access date.
    • For a customised extract, cite the dataset's datacode link and your access date.

  • If you change the data: say so clearly, and state that Eurostat is not responsible for your version.

  • Exceptions: Some Eurostat data cannot be reused commercially:

    • data Eurostat identifies as belonging to sources other than Eurostat;
    • data for countries outside the EU, EFTA, and the official EU acceding and candidate countries (for example the United States, Japan, or China);
    • some trade data, including trade declared by Liechtenstein and Switzerland (1995 onward) and Austrian trade at the 8-digit Combined Nomenclature level.

    Check the copyright notice before commercial reuse.

World Bank

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) by default, under the World Bank's Terms of Use for Datasets: CC BY 4.0 applies "unless specifically labeled otherwise", with the additional terms summarised below.

SaysData is not affiliated with or endorsed by the World Bank.

  • What SaysData serves: one World Bank dataset, the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI): its aggregate governance indicators (estimates, scores, their confidence bounds, standard errors and number of sources), under CC BY 4.0. SaysData does not serve the WGI's underlying source data. An indicator the World Bank labels with any licence or terms other than CC BY 4.0, CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 3.0 IGO, in any World Bank source that lists it, is not served.
  • Attribution: "The World Bank: dataset name: data source (if known)." SaysData's citations give the dataset name as the World Bank database followed by the indicator, for example "The World Bank: Worldwide Governance Indicators, Rule of Law - Governance estimate (approx. -2.5 to +2.5): Detailed documentation of the WGI, …". Also name the licence and link to it, and say if the data was changed (for example by calculation, combination or aggregation), as CC BY 4.0 requires. A series the World Bank labels CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 3.0 IGO is cited with that licence instead of CC BY 4.0.
  • Sharing: If you share World Bank data or give others access to it, include the same attribution requirement in any sub-licence you grant, and require any sub-licensees to do the same. Giving the address of the Terms of Use for Datasets meets this requirement.
  • Endorsement: Do not publicly represent or imply that the World Bank is participating in, or has sponsored, approved or endorsed, the manner or purpose of your use or reproduction of the data.
  • Name and logo: The Terms of Use for Datasets say: "You may not use the name, any trade-mark, official mark, official emblem or logo of The World Bank, or any of its other means of promotion or publicity, without The World Bank's prior written consent nor in any event to represent or imply an association or affiliation with The World Bank."
  • Third-party data: Some World Bank datasets and indicators come from third parties. They may not be redistributed or reused without the original provider's consent, or may carry different terms, which the World Bank states in the dataset or indicator metadata or on the dataset's own pages. Check before relying on the default. For the WGI, the World Bank's usage advisory restricts the standardized, rescaled values it publishes from five third-party sources (the Economist Intelligence Unit, Gallup World Poll, The PRS Group, S&P Global and the World Economic Forum) to users' own analysis, research or education; SaysData does not serve those values. The same advisory says the WGI data are perceptions-based and inherently subjective, are not intended to serve as definitive criteria for credit assessments, sovereign credit ratings, investment risk or other critical financial decisions, and that the scores are not a definitive statement or hierarchy of government performance.
  • Disputes: The Terms of Use for Datasets add a binding procedure to CC BY 4.0: a dispute under the licence that cannot be settled amicably goes to non-binding mediation, then, if it is not settled within 45 days of the notice of mediation, either party may refer it to arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.