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Fiscal Decentralisation Database

How revenue, spending, tax autonomy and debt are shared between central and sub-central government in OECD countries.

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What it looks at

Official statistics — What results · What the law says

What it is made of

Its parts have not been read yet.

May its data be shown here?

Licence unclear

Likely CC BY 4.0, but the terms page refused a program; it must be read before anything is loaded.

The publisher's terms, quotedThe default licence applied by the OECD is CC BY 4.0 (open-by-default policy, as quoted).

Questions to ask of it

  • Do the countries count the same way? A statistic's definition and scope matter more than its decimals.
  • Does it mix what the law says with what happens? Solon keeps those apart, so a gap between them shows instead of averaging away.
  • Its figures cannot be shown here. Read them at the publisher's, and weigh them with the questions above.
  • Some of how it works has not been read yet; until it is, judge it on what is listed.

Not read yet

These are left open rather than filled in from memory.

  • The OECD terms page
  • The database's tables and definitions

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The facts, in plain words

  1. F1Fiscal Decentralisation Database, published by OECD, says it measures: How revenue, spending, tax autonomy and debt are shared between central and sub-central government in OECD countries.
  2. F2How it is made: official statistics. What it looks at: outcome, de jure.
  3. F3Its parts have not been read yet.
  4. F4Licence: unclear. The terms say: "The default licence applied by the OECD is CC BY 4.0 (open-by-default policy, as quoted)." Likely CC BY 4.0, but the terms page refused a program; it must be read before anything is loaded.
  5. F5Not read yet: The OECD terms page.
  6. F6Not read yet: The database's tables and definitions.
  7. F7A question to ask of it: Do the countries count the same way?
  8. F8A question to ask of it: Does it mix what the law says with what happens?
  9. F9A question to ask of it: Its figures cannot be shown on Solon.
  10. F10A question to ask of it: Part of how it works has not been read yet.
  11. F11Source read on 2026-11-09: OECD: terms and conditions.

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