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  "edition": "2026-10-04",
  "responsiblePublisher": "Rank the States",
  "independentExpertReview": false,
  "reviewType": "Source documentation and automated verification",
  "dataProducts": {
    "ACS": "42 geographic comparison tables, 12 annual histories, published 90% MOEs",
    "PEP": "9 measures; births/deaths/migration/residual reconciliation",
    "BEA": "2024 price indexes and same-year ACS median adjustment",
    "PUMS": "51 housing files; 3 tenure groups; household means, replicate MOEs and supporting percentiles"
  },
  "checks": [
    "Expected SHA-256 source manifest before ingestion",
    "All 50 states, finite values, reference jurisdictions separate",
    "Population component accounting and same-vintage change formulas",
    "PUMS state identifiers, missing fields, weighted means checked twice, positive replicate denominators, signed replicate weights retained",
    "Price-adjusted median uses ACS and BEA 2024 inputs",
    "Immutable editions and edition-specific shared results",
    "Build, static site checker, browser interaction and accessibility tests"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "No independent statistical peer review",
    "PUMS national figures and percentile confidence intervals not calculated",
    "2024 rent-processing and owner-cost definition boundaries flagged",
    "No measured keyword-demand data supplied",
    "Publisher mercantile registry and production deployment remain unverified"
  ]
}