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Data

The numbers behind the number

Official statistical series from 15 national and international agencies. Every value is stored with its version and the date it arrived, so a calculation stays traceable long after the source restates it.

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Escalake's data layer holds the official index series a contract escalation clause can cite: producer and consumer price indices, employment cost indices, and energy and commodity series from 15 national and international statistical agencies. Every observation is stored with its version and the date it arrived, so a past adjustment stays reproducible after the source restates it or replaces the series with a successor. Look up any series in the public index directory, or read how a publication lag decides which value applies.

VERSIONING

Every value has a version and a date

Agencies publish a preliminary figure, finalise it weeks later, and sometimes revise it months after that. Escalake keeps all three, each stamped with the day it was received, so you can always answer which number was used.

Used in the 2024-Q3 adjustment

Value applied134.45
VersionFINAL
Received13 Nov 2024
Later revised to134.61 · 11 Feb

The revision arrived after both parties confirmed. The adjustment is unchanged and the later value is flagged on the record for the next reset.

CONTINUITY

Series that get renamed or rebased stay connected

When a source retires a series and publishes a successor on a new base, Escalake links the two with a continuity factor. A long-running formula keeps calculating across the break without a manual patch.

Successor chain

WPU101 (retired 2023)base 1982 = 100
WPU101 successorbase 2023 = 100
Continuity factor2.9184

Applied automatically · visible in the calculation lineage

Coverage

One connection layer, many sources

15 providers

BLS, FRED, EIA, ECB, Eurostat, ONS, Statistics Canada, ABS, BIS, BOJ, OECD, IMF, World Bank, DBnomics, Nasdaq Data Link.

Timestamped ingestion

Every fetch records what changed and when, so freshness is never a guess.

Search that fits the clause

Find series by category, geography and frequency, the way a clause describes them.

Data, common questions

Which statistical agencies does Escalake pull index data from?

Fifteen providers: the US BLS, FRED, and EIA; the ECB, Eurostat, and UK ONS; Statistics Canada, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the BIS, the Bank of Japan, the OECD, the IMF, the World Bank, DBnomics, and Nasdaq Data Link. All fifteen are included on every plan.

What happens when an agency revises an index value after the adjustment is agreed?

The revision is stored as a new version with its own arrival date. The agreed adjustment does not change, because it was computed from the value both sides confirmed. The later figure is flagged on the record so the next reset can take it into account.

How does Escalake handle a discontinued or rebased index series?

When an agency retires a series and publishes a successor on a new base period, Escalake links the two with a continuity factor. A long-running formula keeps calculating across the break without a manual patch, and the factor shows in the calculation lineage.

Do I need a paid account to look up index data?

No. The index directory and the Escalake Index are public and free: current value, year-over-year change, and plain-English context for each series. An account is only needed to build a formula and compute a contract price adjustment.

The question was never what the index is. It was which value of it both sides agreed to use.

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