the observatory

The build, measured.

Every number below is computed from the build artifacts — the full administrative target surface, the shipped weights, and the comparison runs. The gaps are shown next to the wins.

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the sources

Where every layer comes from.

Each block of the population traces to a named public source. Every donor is a primary survey; the enhanced CPS appears only as the benchmark the finished dataset is scored against.

calibration

How close the population sits to the record.

distribution of target misses

fit by target family — top families by target count

the worst-fit targets, named

We publish the misses with the hits: most of the residual error is concentrated in thin demographic and tail-income cells, the known frontier of the pool. The calibration roadmap targets these directly.

weights

No aggregate leans on a handful of records.

Calibration without a bound concentrates mass: the unconstrained run pushed one synthetic household to represent over a million real ones. The shipped weights carry a hard per-record cap — chosen by sweeping the bound and keeping the fit — so the distribution stays honest.

variable lineage

Every variable, accounted for.

Each variable the incumbent enhanced CPS carries, side by side with this release: how filled it is, what it totals, and whether it is live here or still a gap. Search the full set.

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the score

Against the incumbent.

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