Data sources and update policy
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MacroLens data is collected automatically, directly from the official dissemination channels of the nine sources listed in item 2.2 of the Technical Specification. Every time series shows its source and dataset.
Sources
| Source | Dissemination channel | Terms of use (summary) |
|---|---|---|
| State Data Agency (Statistics Lithuania) | Official Statistics Portal — indicators database | Official statistics are provided free of charge; the source must be cited |
| Bank of Lithuania | Bank of Lithuania statistics | ESCB statistics re-use policy: free of charge, also for commercial purposes, with the source quoted |
| Eurostat | Eurostat dissemination (SDMX) API | Re-use for commercial and non-commercial purposes is authorised provided the source is acknowledged (copyright notice) |
| OECD | OECD Data Explorer (SDMX) | Since 1 July 2024 licensed under CC BY 4.0 (terms) |
| International Monetary Fund | IMF data portal and API | Used with attribution to the IMF as the source; IMF data is available free of charge on the IMF website (terms) |
| DG ECFIN AMECO | AMECO database | European Commission re-use policy (Decision 2011/833/EU), CC BY 4.0 (legal notice) |
| FAOSTAT | FAOSTAT data API | Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (statistical database terms of use) |
| European Central Bank | ECB Data Portal | ESCB statistics re-use policy: free of charge, with the source quoted (policy) |
| World Bank | World Bank Open Data | CC BY 4.0 for most datasets (terms of use for datasets) |
The table summarises the terms; in every case the terms published by the source itself apply. The complete list of source attributions and licences is on the Licences and attributions page.
How to cite the source. MacroLens charts show a source note by default (e.g. “Source: Eurostat; MacroLens”), and exported files keep the series' source and dataset code. When you use the data in your own publications, cite the original source, e.g. “Source: Eurostat (online data code namq_10_gdp)”. If you transformed the data (e.g. seasonally adjusted it or calculated changes), state that these are your calculations based on the source data.
Update policy
- Automatic checks several times a day. Several times a day the MacroLens ingestion job asks every source for the latest publication dates of its datasets and re-downloads the datasets that changed. Where a source gives no publication date, the dataset is downloaded again at least once every 24 hours (normally every 16–18 hours) and compared with the existing data.
- Within 24 hours (TS 3.2). After a source updates a time series, the updated series is placed in the MacroLens database within 24 hours at the latest. Updates are monitored continuously; if a dataset approaches this limit (e.g. because the source's API is temporarily down), our team is alerted and acts.
- Every change is recorded. On the series page you see the source publication date, when the series changed in MacroLens, when it was last checked, and the revision history.
- Release calendar. Where a source publishes a calendar, the expected date of the next update is shown. The Updates & releases page has the sections What's new (recently updated data), Source status, Release calendar and Update policy.
- Revisions. Data revised by the source replaces the earlier values; the changes are recorded in the revision history.
- Discontinued series. When a source discontinues a series, it is marked as discontinued and the historical data remains available.
- Source outages. If a source's interface is temporarily unavailable, MacroLens keeps serving the last data received and retries at the next check.
Categories
The database covers all the categories of item 2.1 of the Technical Specification: national accounts; current account and foreign trade; business statistics; prices; labour market and wages; demography (including international migration); economic cycle; social indicators; agriculture; general government finance. In addition: financial markets and money (interest rates, exchange rates, monetary aggregates).
Regions
TS 2.3.
| Group | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Lithuania | Series in all categories |
| EU member states (individually) | Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden |
| EU aggregates | European Union (27 countries, from 2020); for historical series also EU (28 countries, 2013–2020) |
| Euro area | Euro area (changing composition) and fixed-composition aggregates: 21 countries (from 2026, after Bulgaria joined), 20 countries (2023–2025), 19 countries (2015–2022) — depending on the aggregates published by the source |
| OECD member states | All 38 OECD members (besides the EU members: Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States) and the OECD aggregate |
| G8 member states | United States, Japan, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Russia; also G7 and G20 aggregates where published by the source |
| World | World aggregates (IMF, World Bank, FAOSTAT data) |
| EU candidate countries | Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine — where the sources publish them (e.g. euro exchange rates from Eurostat) |
Data for Russia is provided to the extent the sources publish it — since 2022 some international organisations no longer update it or publish it only partially.
Series for aggregate regions (e.g. the EU or the euro area) are calculated and published by the sources themselves; MacroLens does not recalculate them.
Missing data?
If you cannot find a series you need, send a data request: state the indicator, country, frequency and, if you know it, the source table. We will extend the database.