Recording contracts

Different data deserves different treatment. Each focus fixes its source rules, cadence, review gate and statistical instrument in advance, so the standard cannot be relaxed to fit an inconvenient result.

01 / 08 · Economy Nothing published yet

Economy & Markets

Prices, growth, employment, trade, income and financial conditions.

Cadence: Weekly plus official release days
Review gate: Methodologist gate
Statistical instruments: statsmodels, DuckDB
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: National Bureau of Statistics, Central Bank of Nigeria, Debt Management Office, World Bank, IMF
Accepted document kinds: official release, statistical bulletin, machine-readable dataset

02 / 08 · Public money Nothing published yet

Public Money & Governance

Budgets, revenue, allocations, debt, expenditure and service delivery.

Cadence: Weekly and monthly allocation releases
Review gate: Two-person gate
Statistical instruments: Pandera, DuckDB
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: Office of the Accountant-General, Debt Management Office, Budget Office, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, State governments
Accepted document kinds: appropriation act, audited statement, official release, debt bulletin

03 / 08 · Health 1 published

Health & Nutrition

Population health, nutrition, mortality, disease and access to care.

Cadence: Wednesday plus surveillance releases
Review gate: Methodologist gate
Statistical instruments: R survey, SciPy
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: Federal Ministry of Health, National Population Commission, ICF, National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, DHS Program, UNICEF, WHO
Accepted document kinds: survey report, microdata, surveillance bulletin, administrative dataset

Child stunting across Nigeria

04 / 08 · Education Nothing published yet

Education & Youth

Attendance, completion, learning, examinations, skills and youth transitions.

Cadence: Thursday plus term and annual releases
Review gate: Methodologist gate
Statistical instruments: R survey, Pandera
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: Federal Ministry of Education, National Bureau of Statistics, UNICEF, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, WAEC, JAMB
Accepted document kinds: survey report, EMIS dataset, examination release, microdata

05 / 08 · People Nothing published yet

People & Society

Population, migration, households, family and clearly-labelled opinion research.

Cadence: Saturday with separate survey labelling
Review gate: Two-person gate
Statistical instruments: R survey, SciPy
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: National Population Commission, National Bureau of Statistics, DHS Program, UNICEF, peer-reviewed survey teams
Accepted document kinds: census release, survey report, microdata, peer-reviewed study

06 / 08 · Infrastructure Nothing published yet

Infrastructure & Services

Electricity, connectivity, roads, transport, housing, water and sanitation.

Cadence: Friday plus regulator releases
Review gate: Methodologist gate
Statistical instruments: statsmodels, GeoPandas
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Nigerian Communications Commission, Federal Ministry of Works, National Bureau of Statistics, state utilities
Accepted document kinds: regulator report, administrative dataset, official release

07 / 08 · Food & environment Nothing published yet

Food, Agriculture & Environment

Production, food security, prices, rainfall, climate, land and environmental risk.

Cadence: Weekly with seasonal monitoring
Review gate: Methodologist gate
Statistical instruments: xarray, GeoPandas
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, NiMet, National Bureau of Statistics, FAO, FEWS NET
Accepted document kinds: official release, geospatial dataset, survey report, early-warning bulletin

08 / 08 · Safety & civic life Nothing published yet

Safety & Civic Life

Safety, justice, elections, road incidents and other high-sensitivity civic indicators.

Cadence: Release-led; never fully automatic
Review gate: Two-person gate
Statistical instruments: statsmodels, SciPy
Primary source required: Yes — a repost is never the source of record
Preferred publishers: Independent National Electoral Commission, Federal Road Safety Corps, National Bureau of Statistics, courts and justice agencies
Accepted document kinds: official result, administrative dataset, court record, statistical release