Source compliance
Public or licensed source, recorded robots decision, no protected flow, and clear usage classification.
Methodology 1.0.0
Price index quality gates and suppression rules
A URL is not evidence. Every national, state, and city estimate must clear all applicable gates below; otherwise it is suppressed and rolls up to the nearest qualified geography.
Current outcome: numeric release withheld. The production audit found zero legacy provider price observations, and the separate append-only public-research schema was not installed at audit time. No geography may publish until its gate version passes documented simulation, backtesting, and false-precision review on representative panel conditions.
| Level | Facilities | Diversity | Min matched panel | Max core missingness | Max operator weight | Max relative CI width |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | 500 | 25 states / 10 known operators | ≥50% products / ≥50% facilities | ≤20% | ≤35% / 0% unknown | ≤20% |
| State | 30 | 5 counties or metros / 3 known operators | ≥50% products / ≥50% facilities | ≤20% | ≤50% / 0% unknown | ≤30% |
| City | 12 | 3 known operators | ≥50% products / ≥50% facilities | ≤20% | ≤60% / 0% unknown | ≤35% |
Product identity
Exact dimensions plus enough climate/access/floor information to match or adjust the unit.
Price identity
Recurring, regular, promotional, range, and fee fields remain separate and explicitly typed.
Freshness
UTC retrieval time and price-valid-until date retained; stale records are excluded from current estimates.
Sample breadth
Facilities, operators, markets, states, and product configurations reported for every release.
Concentration
Effective operator weights calculated after facility-level aggregation.
Panel continuity
Matched-unit and matched-facility share exposed for time-change estimates.
Precision
Facility-clustered confidence interval and relative width reported beside the estimate.
Method validation
The exact geography and gate version must pass documented simulation, backtesting, and false-precision review.
Reproducibility
Parser, code, manifest, seed, exclusions, checksum, and content-addressed release resource retained.
Release labels
Withheld
One or more required evidence gates failed; no estimate is shown.
Preliminary
Qualified initial release, still open to scheduled source or matching revisions.
Revised
A preliminary value changed within the declared revision window and has a public revision record.
Final
The 90-day revision window closed; later corrections require a new version and correction notice.