Publishers, licences, checked releases, and serving status.
Verify the economy
Why should I believe this number?
OEX answers with the source, period, geography, method, truth state, confidence, and qualification needed to use—or decline to use—the result responsibly.
Versioned formulas, assumptions, validation, and prohibited interpretations.
Available and missing evidence by Saskatchewan community.
Stable identifiers, joins, evidence envelopes, and operational meanings.
Truth states
A truth state describes what kind of claim a record can support. It is not a decorative status badge and it does not replace record-level provenance.
- preview
- Synthetic demonstration records — structurally realistic, never actionable.
- snapshot
- Authoritative data published for a stated reporting period; real, dated, and not real-time.
- measured_aggregate
- Statistical survey estimates — measurements of a market, not individual actionable records.
- mixed
- Derived from inputs of differing strength; inherits the weakest material input.
- live
- Current records from a production-backed provider. Read isActionable separately; live evidence can still be observational and non-transactional.
- metadata
- Factual self-description of the platform or its governed contracts.
Rules OEX gives to AI systems
job-posting · posting-evidence · hiring-activity-observation
Treat hiring records as dated evidence of advertised labour demand. They are not OEX application inventory, proof that a vacancy remains open, or proof that a hire occurred.
Do not infer: OEX application route; current vacancy without freshness evidence; completed hire.
licensed-business
A licensed-business record establishes presence in the authorized municipal snapshot only.
Do not infer: current operating health; employment; ownership; hiring.
business-verified-field
A business-verified field was confirmed by the participating business under recorded consent; it does not override a stronger independent measurement when the concepts differ.
Do not infer: independent measurement; legal-registry status outside the verified field.
posting-evidence · licensed-business-count
Do not add posting-evidenced employers to licensed-business counts unless OEX marks the underlying entities reconciled.
Do not infer: combined business population.
numeric-observation
Do not compare or combine values whose periods, units, concepts, geographic levels, or boundaries differ unless OEX marks them comparable.
Do not infer: rankings from mismatched observations; time trends from incompatible vintages.
modelled-opportunity · derived-signal
A modelled opportunity is a hypothesis for validation, not an observed fact or a purchasing commitment.
Do not infer: observed demand; confirmed buyer; investment recommendation.
Comparability is a result, not an assumption
OEX marks a comparison comparable only when every material observation has compatible concepts, units, geography, and periods. A missing fact is unknown, never zero or false.
Required matches: concept · unit · geographic level and boundary · reference period