Methodology
Methodology
How the data is built: the entity model, identifier and URL policy, provenance rules, quality flags, standards and access tiers. These pages are the contract the platform holds itself to.
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How QinMetrics data is built
One connected model from fiscal capacity to contract performance, two parallel data lines, and the rules every record has to satisfy before it is published.
Updated Sep 1, 2026
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Entity model
The record types QinMetrics publishes, what each one contains, and how they connect.
Updated Sep 1, 2026
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Identifiers and URLs
How records are named, why their addresses never change, and how to cite them.
Updated Sep 1, 2026
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Sources and provenance
What a source record contains, how records are linked to sources, and what happens when a source disappears.
Updated Sep 1, 2026
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Data quality, revisions and releases
Status flags, how values change over time, and how datasets are versioned so that a citation keeps meaning what it meant.
Updated Sep 1, 2026
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Standards and codelists
Where the model follows international standards, and where it deliberately departs from them.
Updated Sep 1, 2026
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Access, licensing and citation
Access tiers, what each dataset's licence means, and the citation format for datasets and records.
Updated Sep 1, 2026