Methods
Every measure follows the same discipline, then documents its own specifics.
What qualifies as a measure
- An official promise, citable to a primary document.
- A numeric target and a deadline.
- Public data to score it with.
- A metric defined before the outcomes are known. Each measure's methods page is published with its baseline, not after the results.
Shared rules
- Comparisons are like-for-like: year-over-year for seasonal data, target-vs-actual for countable commitments.
- Status vocabulary is fixed, including the words for falling short: met, on track, early, baseline-setting, announced, behind, missed. No grades. The negative statuses are pre-registered now, before any results exist, for the same reason the metrics are.
- Every methodological judgment is documented on the page it affects.