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INS publishes the index; the Central Bank uses it for policy; administered and subsidized prices mean some components do not behave like market-clearing prices.","indicators":[{"label":"Headline CPI","value":"5.4","unit":"% y/y","period":"Jun 2026","release_date":"5 Jul 2026","source":"Institut National de la Statistique","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"All-items consumer price inflation, annual change."},{"label":"Monthly CPI change","value":"0.2","unit":"% m/m","period":"Jun 2026","release_date":"5 Jul 2026","source":"INS","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Month-on-month change in the consumer price index."},{"label":"Food inflation","value":"6.4","unit":"% y/y","period":"Jun 2026","release_date":"5 Jul 2026","source":"INS","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Annual CPI change for food and non-alcoholic beverages."},{"label":"Core-like inflation","value":"5.3","unit":"% y/y","period":"Jun 2026","release_date":"5 Jul 2026","source":"INS","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"INS measure excluding food products and energy; not necessarily identical to every international 'core' inflation definition."},{"label":"Policy rate","value":"7.5","unit":"%","period":"current after 28 May 2026 decision","release_date":"28 May 2026","source":"Banque Centrale de Tunisie","source_url":"https://www.bct.gov.tn/bct/siteprod/english/index.jsp","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Central Bank of Tunisia key policy rate after the May 2026 Board decision."},{"label":"Unemployment","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official labour release","release_date":"","source":"INS","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld until the current quarterly labour release and denominator are preserved directly."},{"label":"Real GDP growth","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official quarter","release_date":"","source":"INS","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Current quarterly growth rate not promoted without a directly preserved official national-accounts release."},{"label":"Price-system flag","value":"mixed","unit":"free + administered","period":"current","release_date":"","source":"INS / government price system","source_url":"https://www.ins.tn/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Headline CPI includes goods and services whose prices may be market-determined, regulated or subsidized."}],"sources":[{"domain":"Prices","producer":"Institut National de la Statistique (INS)","release":"Indice des prix à la consommation familiale","frequency":"monthly","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.ins.tn/"},{"domain":"Labour","producer":"INS","release":"Employment and unemployment statistics","frequency":"quarterly","format":"web / PDF / tables","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.ins.tn/"},{"domain":"National accounts","producer":"INS","release":"Quarterly / annual national accounts","frequency":"quarterly / annual","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.ins.tn/"},{"domain":"Monetary / FX","producer":"Banque Centrale de Tunisie","release":"Policy decisions, rates, exchange and monetary statistics","frequency":"event / daily / monthly","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.bct.gov.tn/"},{"domain":"Fiscal / regulated prices","producer":"Ministry of Finance / sector ministries","release":"Budget, subsidy and administered-price information","frequency":"event / monthly / annual","format":"web / PDF","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.finances.gov.tn/"}],"measurement_notes":[{"id":"TUN-M01","question":"Does headline CPI mean every price is freely determined?","answer":"No. Tunisia has administered and subsidized prices. Headline CPI measures the observed basket, but component dynamics can reflect policy decisions as well as market conditions."},{"id":"TUN-M02","question":"Is the INS ex-food-and-energy measure automatically the same as any 'core inflation' series?","answer":"No. Core measures are definition-dependent. The room preserves the exact exclusion rule rather than standardizing the label by assumption."},{"id":"TUN-M03","question":"Can a policy-rate change be interpreted without the inflation measure the BCT is reacting to?","answer":"Not cleanly. The room pairs dated BCT decisions with the official INS price release vintage available at the time."},{"id":"TUN-M04","question":"Does a stable regulated price mean underlying scarcity disappeared?","answer":"Not necessarily. Administered prices can suppress or delay pass-through, so price stability in a component may reflect policy architecture rather than unconstrained market balance."},{"id":"TUN-M05","question":"Can French and Arabic official releases be merged only by translated titles?","answer":"No. The Lab keeps source-language labels and publication metadata so similarly translated series are not accidentally collapsed."}],"ledger":[{"released":"5 Jul 2026","indicator":"CPI","reference":"Jun 2026","first":"5.4% y/y; 0.2% m/m; food 6.4%; ex-food-and-energy 5.3%","current":"same preserved official release state","revised":"No revision observed in source consulted","url":"https://www.ins.tn/"},{"released":"28 May 2026","indicator":"Policy rate","reference":"decision date","first":"7.5%","current":"7.5% in room baseline","revised":"Policy decision, not statistical revision","url":"https://www.bct.gov.tn/"}],"findings":[{"id":"TUN-001","title":"Tunisia's headline inflation rate is partly a map of price institutions.","body":"The CPI combines market-priced items with goods and services affected by administered prices and subsidies. The same 5.4% headline can therefore contain components operating under very different price-setting regimes.","why":"Comparing component inflation without price-setting metadata can misread policy-controlled stability as market stability."},{"id":"TUN-002","title":"The core label needs a formula, not a nickname.","body":"INS reports an inflation measure excluding food products and energy. The Lab records that exact exclusion rather than treating every 'core' series as definitionally interchangeable across countries.","why":"Cross-country core-inflation charts often hide materially different exclusion rules."}],"program":[{"id":"TUN-001","title":"Free versus administered price map","state":"active","description":"Classify major CPI components by market, regulated and subsidy exposure."},{"id":"TUN-002","title":"Core inflation definition audit","state":"active","description":"Preserve exact exclusions and compare them with regional core measures."},{"id":"TUN-003","title":"Policy decision vintage book","state":"queued","description":"Pair BCT decisions with the exact inflation release available on each decision date."},{"id":"TUN-004","title":"Subsidy pass-through notes","state":"queued","description":"Document where administered prices delay or alter observed CPI pass-through."},{"id":"TUN-005","title":"Bilingual release archive","state":"active","description":"Preserve French/Arabic labels, files and release dates without flattening terminology."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"4","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"baseline active","definition_audit":"CPI active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}},"LBN":{"country":"Lebanon","slug":"lebanon","status":"country-room-live","headline":"A Lebanese economic number can change meaning when its currency conversion vintage changes.","dek":"Lebanon's room is built around currency valuation, denomination and vintage. LBP-denominated series, official exchange-rate series and USD conversions are kept separate so a nominal local-currency increase is never silently presented as a real or dollar increase.","indicators":[{"label":"Official USD/LBP rate","value":"89,500","unit":"LBP per USD","period":"through Apr 2026 BDL series","release_date":"BDL time-series baseline","source":"Banque du Liban","source_url":"https://www.bdl.gov.lb/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Official BDL exchange-rate series used in the room baseline. Not a parallel-market quote."},{"label":"Headline CPI","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest CAS release","release_date":"","source":"Central Administration of Statistics","source_url":"http://www.cas.gov.lb/index.php/economic-statistics-en/cpi-en","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Current CPI value withheld until the latest CAS bulletin is preserved directly with base and reference period."},{"label":"Monthly CPI change","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest CAS release","release_date":"","source":"CAS","source_url":"http://www.cas.gov.lb/index.php/economic-statistics-en/cpi-en","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Not promoted without the current official bulletin."},{"label":"Unemployment","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official survey","release_date":"","source":"CAS / labour survey system","source_url":"http://www.cas.gov.lb/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Lebanon does not have a safely promoted fresh quarterly unemployment observation in this room baseline."},{"label":"Real GDP growth","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official national accounts","release_date":"","source":"CAS","source_url":"http://www.cas.gov.lb/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld pending a directly preserved official national-accounts release."},{"label":"Policy rate","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"current monetary framework","release_date":"","source":"Banque du Liban","source_url":"https://www.bdl.gov.lb/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"No single imported policy-rate proxy is promoted; instrument and monetary framework must be identified explicitly."},{"label":"Currency-conversion rule","value":"dated","unit":"vintage required","period":"all converted series","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Any USD conversion must carry the exact exchange-rate source, date or averaging window."},{"label":"Denomination flag","value":"mandatory","unit":"LBP / USD / index","period":"all room records","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Nominal LBP, converted USD and price-index changes are stored as distinct constructs."}],"sources":[{"domain":"Prices / national accounts / labour","producer":"Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)","release":"CPI, national accounts, social and labour statistics","frequency":"monthly / annual / survey-dependent","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"partial","url":"http://www.cas.gov.lb/"},{"domain":"Monetary / FX","producer":"Banque du Liban (BDL)","release":"Exchange rates, monetary and banking statistics","frequency":"daily / monthly","format":"web / XLS / PDF","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.bdl.gov.lb/"},{"domain":"Fiscal","producer":"Ministry of Finance","release":"Public finance, debt and budget statistics","frequency":"monthly / annual","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.finance.gov.lb/"},{"domain":"Trade","producer":"Customs / CAS","release":"External trade statistics","frequency":"monthly / annual","format":"web / tables","archive_quality":"partial","url":"http://www.customs.gov.lb/"},{"domain":"Balance of payments / banking","producer":"BDL","release":"BoP, reserves, banking aggregates","frequency":"monthly / quarterly","format":"web / XLS / PDF","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.bdl.gov.lb/"}],"measurement_notes":[{"id":"LBN-M01","question":"If an LBP series rises, did its USD value rise?","answer":"Not necessarily. In a large currency revaluation environment, nominal LBP growth and USD-equivalent growth can have opposite signs. Every conversion needs a dated exchange-rate vintage."},{"id":"LBN-M02","question":"Which dollar rate?","answer":"The room distinguishes the BDL official rate from any market or historical parallel rate. A generic 'USD/LBP' field is not sufficient provenance."},{"id":"LBN-M03","question":"Can pre-change and post-change LBP series be graphed without denomination notes?","answer":"They can be graphed, but interpretation can be badly misleading. Currency-unit changes, accounting restatements and exchange-rate regime changes must travel with the series."},{"id":"LBN-M04","question":"Can a current USD conversion be applied retrospectively to historical local-currency values?","answer":"Only if the research question explicitly asks for constant-current-rate conversion. It cannot be presented as what the historical value was worth at the time."},{"id":"LBN-M05","question":"Why withhold a fresh unemployment number?","answer":"Freshness is part of evidence quality. An older survey result should not be made to look current merely because no newer official observation is easy to retrieve."}],"ledger":[{"released":"BDL series baseline","indicator":"Official USD/LBP","reference":"through Apr 2026","first":"89,500 LBP per USD in preserved room baseline","current":"same baseline","revised":"Exchange-rate series; revision tracking active","url":"https://www.bdl.gov.lb/"},{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"Conversion rule","reference":"all converted Lebanese series","first":"source + date/average window required","current":"same","revised":"Method rule","url":"#measurement"}],"findings":[{"id":"LBN-001","title":"In Lebanon, denomination can dominate the story before economics even begins.","body":"A nominal LBP series, a USD-converted series and a price-deflated real series answer different questions. The room prohibits silent conversion because exchange-rate choice can change both magnitude and apparent trend.","why":"Many apparent Lebanese 'growth' or 'collapse' comparisons are partly unit-selection problems."},{"id":"LBN-002","title":"The official exchange-rate series is evidence, not a universal conversion key.","body":"BDL's official USD/LBP rate is a defined official series. It should not be silently substituted for market-price questions or used retrospectively without stating the conversion convention.","why":"Exchange-rate provenance belongs in every converted observation, particularly through regime changes."}],"program":[{"id":"LBN-001","title":"Currency vintage ledger","state":"active","description":"Preserve official exchange-rate observations and regime changes by date."},{"id":"LBN-002","title":"LBP versus USD restatement audit","state":"active","description":"Identify public series whose narrative changes materially under different conversion conventions."},{"id":"LBN-003","title":"CAS CPI archive","state":"queued","description":"Preserve current and historical CPI bulletins with base-year metadata."},{"id":"LBN-004","title":"Freshness audit","state":"active","description":"Mark stale labour and national-account indicators explicitly rather than carrying them forward."},{"id":"LBN-005","title":"Nominal / real / converted dictionary","state":"queued","description":"Build a machine-readable denomination and transformation registry."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"4","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"currency baseline active","definition_audit":"denomination active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}},"IRQ":{"country":"Iraq","slug":"iraq","status":"country-room-live","headline":"The exchange rate most often quoted is not necessarily the exchange-rate concept being measured.","dek":"Iraq's room separates the Central Bank's official exchange-rate series from market-premium questions, and separates the CBI policy rate from lending, deposit and auction-related rates. The purpose is to stop one-number monetary narratives before they start.","indicators":[{"label":"CBI official USD/IQD rate","value":"1,310","unit":"IQD per USD","period":"current CBI display","release_date":"current","source":"Central Bank of Iraq","source_url":"https://cbi.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Official CBI exchange-rate display. Not a parallel-market rate."},{"label":"CBI policy rate","value":"5.5","unit":"%","period":"current CBI key indicators","release_date":"current","source":"Central Bank of Iraq","source_url":"https://cbi.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"CBI policy rate displayed in official key indicators."},{"label":"Headline CPI","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official release","release_date":"","source":"Central Statistical Organization","source_url":"https://cosit.gov.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Current CPI value withheld pending a directly preserved official release."},{"label":"Unemployment","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official labour evidence","release_date":"","source":"Central Statistical Organization / Ministry of Planning","source_url":"https://cosit.gov.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"No current value promoted without survey date, geography, age and denominator."},{"label":"Real GDP growth","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official national accounts","release_date":"","source":"Ministry of Planning / CSO","source_url":"https://mop.gov.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld pending directly preserved official national-accounts release."},{"label":"FX premium","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"current market question","release_date":"","source":"requires official + market source pair","source_url":"https://cbi.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"The gap between official and market exchange rates is a separate derived object and is not inferred from the official rate alone."},{"label":"Oil dependence flag","value":"material","unit":"fiscal / external","period":"structural","release_date":"","source":"Ministry of Oil / Finance / official accounts","source_url":"https://oil.gov.iq/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Oil-price and export-volume exposure must be separated from non-oil domestic activity in macro interpretation."},{"label":"Monetary instrument flag","value":"named","unit":"instrument required","period":"all rate records","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Every interest-rate observation must identify policy, deposit, lending or other instrument."}],"sources":[{"domain":"Prices / labour / national statistics","producer":"Central Statistical Organization (CSO)","release":"CPI, labour, demographic and economic statistics","frequency":"monthly / annual / survey-dependent","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://cosit.gov.iq/"},{"domain":"Monetary / FX","producer":"Central Bank of Iraq (CBI)","release":"Exchange rates, policy rate, banking and monetary indicators","frequency":"daily / monthly / event","format":"web / XLS / PDF","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://cbi.iq/"},{"domain":"National accounts / development","producer":"Ministry of Planning","release":"National accounts and development indicators","frequency":"quarterly / annual","format":"web / PDF","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://mop.gov.iq/"},{"domain":"Fiscal","producer":"Ministry of Finance","release":"Budget and fiscal execution","frequency":"monthly / annual","format":"web / PDF","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://mof.gov.iq/"},{"domain":"Oil","producer":"Ministry of Oil","release":"Production and export statistics","frequency":"monthly","format":"web / statements","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://oil.gov.iq/"}],"measurement_notes":[{"id":"IRQ-M01","question":"Is 1,310 IQD/USD 'the Iraqi exchange rate'?","answer":"It is the current official CBI rate displayed in the room baseline. A market or street rate is a different object and must be sourced separately."},{"id":"IRQ-M02","question":"Can the official-market gap be calculated from an official-rate page alone?","answer":"No. A premium needs a contemporaneous market-rate source, matching timestamp and a documented formula."},{"id":"IRQ-M03","question":"Which Iraqi interest rate?","answer":"The CBI policy rate is not interchangeable with bank lending rates, deposit rates or rates attached to other facilities. Instrument identity is mandatory."},{"id":"IRQ-M04","question":"Does headline GDP growth describe non-oil domestic conditions?","answer":"Not necessarily. Oil output, prices and export conditions can dominate aggregate movements. Oil and non-oil components should be separated where official accounts permit."},{"id":"IRQ-M05","question":"Can annual fiscal performance be read without oil-price context?","answer":"Not safely. Oil revenue exposure makes commodity price, export volume and fiscal realization part of the provenance chain for interpretation."}],"ledger":[{"released":"current CBI baseline","indicator":"Official USD/IQD","reference":"current","first":"1,310","current":"1,310 in room baseline","revised":"Rate observation; monitor policy changes","url":"https://cbi.iq/"},{"released":"current CBI baseline","indicator":"Policy rate","reference":"current","first":"5.5%","current":"5.5% in room baseline","revised":"Policy setting; not a statistical revision","url":"https://cbi.iq/"}],"findings":[{"id":"IRQ-001","title":"The official exchange rate does not measure the exchange-rate premium.","body":"The CBI currently displays an official rate of 1,310 IQD per USD. Any statement about a parallel-market premium requires a second contemporaneous market observation; the official rate alone cannot supply it.","why":"A common Iraq data error is to collapse an administered official rate and a market-gap question into one field."},{"id":"IRQ-002","title":"'The interest rate' is not a valid Iraqi monetary variable name.","body":"The CBI policy rate is one instrument. Lending, deposit and other financial rates measure different prices and transmission channels.","why":"Instrument metadata is necessary before time-series or cross-country comparison."}],"program":[{"id":"IRQ-001","title":"Official versus market FX ledger","state":"active","description":"Preserve official rate changes and source a separate timestamp-matched market series before calculating premiums."},{"id":"IRQ-002","title":"Iraqi rate taxonomy","state":"active","description":"Map policy, lending, deposit and facility rates by instrument."},{"id":"IRQ-003","title":"Oil / non-oil accounts map","state":"queued","description":"Separate aggregate GDP movements from oil-sector contribution where official data allow."},{"id":"IRQ-004","title":"Oil-to-budget evidence chain","state":"queued","description":"Link production, exports, prices and fiscal realization without causal overclaiming."},{"id":"IRQ-005","title":"CPI source preservation","state":"active","description":"Archive official monthly price releases and base/method changes."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"5","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"FX/policy baseline active","definition_audit":"FX + rates active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}},"QAT":{"country":"Qatar","slug":"qatar","status":"country-room-live","headline":"A price index level is not an inflation rate, and a revised GDP series is not the same vintage policymakers first saw.","dek":"Qatar's room focuses on two quiet but costly errors: confusing CPI index levels with inflation rates, and comparing national-accounts estimates across vintages without recording revisions. The riyal's fixed exchange arrangement is tracked separately from the central bank's policy-rate instruments.","indicators":[{"label":"QCB deposit rate","value":"4.60","unit":"%","period":"current QCB rates page baseline","release_date":"current","source":"Qatar Central Bank","source_url":"https://www.qcb.gov.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"QCB deposit rate; one monetary-policy instrument, not a generic market interest rate."},{"label":"QCB lending rate","value":"5.10","unit":"%","period":"current QCB rates page baseline","release_date":"current","source":"Qatar Central Bank","source_url":"https://www.qcb.gov.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"QCB lending rate."},{"label":"QCB repo rate","value":"4.85","unit":"%","period":"current QCB rates page baseline","release_date":"current","source":"Qatar Central Bank","source_url":"https://www.qcb.gov.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"QCB repo rate."},{"label":"FX regime","value":"fixed","unit":"QAR/USD","period":"current","release_date":"","source":"Qatar Central Bank","source_url":"https://www.qcb.gov.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Qatari riyal fixed exchange arrangement against the US dollar; regime is distinct from daily market quotes."},{"label":"Headline CPI inflation","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official monthly release","release_date":"","source":"National Planning Council / official statistics","source_url":"https://www.npc.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Inflation rate withheld until the current official bulletin is preserved; an index level is not substituted."},{"label":"CPI index level","value":"withheld","unit":"index","period":"latest official monthly release","release_date":"","source":"National Planning Council","source_url":"https://www.npc.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Index level kept separate from percentage change."},{"label":"Real GDP growth","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official quarter","release_date":"","source":"National Planning Council","source_url":"https://www.npc.qa/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld pending direct release and vintage identification."},{"label":"GDP revision flag","value":"required","unit":"vintage","period":"all quarterly accounts","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#ledger","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"First estimate and latest estimate are distinct records when revised."}],"sources":[{"domain":"Prices / national accounts / labour","producer":"National Planning Council / official statistical system","release":"CPI, national accounts, labour and population statistics","frequency":"monthly / quarterly / annual","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.npc.qa/"},{"domain":"Monetary / FX","producer":"Qatar Central Bank","release":"Policy rates, exchange-rate and monetary statistics","frequency":"event / daily / monthly","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.qcb.gov.qa/"},{"domain":"Fiscal","producer":"Ministry of Finance","release":"Budget and fiscal results","frequency":"quarterly / annual","format":"web / PDF","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.mof.gov.qa/"},{"domain":"Trade","producer":"Official statistical system / customs","release":"Foreign merchandise trade","frequency":"monthly","format":"web / tables","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.npc.qa/"},{"domain":"Energy","producer":"QatarEnergy / official ministries","release":"Energy and LNG operational disclosures","frequency":"event / annual","format":"web / reports","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.qatarenergy.qa/"}],"measurement_notes":[{"id":"QAT-M01","question":"Is a CPI reading of 110 '10% inflation'?","answer":"No. An index level and a growth rate are different objects. Inflation requires a comparison across periods under a defined formula."},{"id":"QAT-M02","question":"Which QCB rate?","answer":"QCB publishes distinct deposit, lending and repo rates. Cross-country policy comparisons should identify the instrument instead of selecting whichever rate is easiest to find."},{"id":"QAT-M03","question":"Can the latest GDP history be treated as what analysts knew at the first release date?","answer":"No. Quarterly accounts may be revised. The ledger distinguishes first estimate, later revision and current vintage."},{"id":"QAT-M04","question":"Does a fixed QAR/USD regime make monetary policy identical to the US?","answer":"No. The peg is a major constraint and transmission channel, but domestic liquidity operations, banking conditions and instrument settings remain distinct evidence."},{"id":"QAT-M05","question":"Can hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon growth be collapsed?","answer":"They can be aggregated for total GDP, but sector decomposition is essential for interpreting domestic demand versus energy-sector movements."}],"ledger":[{"released":"current QCB baseline","indicator":"QCB rates","reference":"current","first":"Deposit 4.60%; lending 5.10%; repo 4.85%","current":"same room baseline","revised":"Policy settings, monitor dated decisions","url":"https://www.qcb.gov.qa/"},{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"GDP vintage rule","reference":"all quarterly accounts","first":"first estimate retained separately","current":"same","revised":"Method rule","url":"#ledger"}],"findings":[{"id":"QAT-001","title":"Qatar has multiple policy rates; 'the QCB rate' is under-specified.","body":"The room baseline separately records the QCB deposit, lending and repo rates. They are distinct instruments with different roles.","why":"Instrument ambiguity can create fake cross-country rate gaps or false event-study timing."},{"id":"QAT-002","title":"GDP revision is part of the data-generating process, not clerical noise.","body":"The Lab stores first estimates separately from later national-account vintages instead of overwriting history with the newest table.","why":"This enables a genuine 'what was knowable?' reconstruction for forecasting and policy analysis."}],"program":[{"id":"QAT-001","title":"CPI level-versus-rate audit","state":"active","description":"Prevent index levels from being mislabeled as inflation rates."},{"id":"QAT-002","title":"QCB instrument dictionary","state":"active","description":"Track deposit, lending, repo and other official rates separately."},{"id":"QAT-003","title":"GDP first-release archive","state":"queued","description":"Preserve initial quarterly estimates before revisions overwrite the narrative."},{"id":"QAT-004","title":"Hydrocarbon / non-hydrocarbon split","state":"queued","description":"Separate energy-driven and domestic-sector growth where official accounts permit."},{"id":"QAT-005","title":"Peg-transmission timeline","state":"active","description":"Pair US and QCB rate decisions without assuming one-to-one domestic effects."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"4","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"GDP rule active","definition_audit":"rates active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}},"OMN":{"country":"Oman","slug":"oman","status":"country-room-live","headline":"A fixed exchange rate does not eliminate domestic monetary transmission questions.","dek":"Oman's room tracks the rial's fixed exchange arrangement alongside Central Bank of Oman instruments, domestic credit conditions and official price evidence. 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Pass-through is an empirical question."},{"id":"OMN-M02","question":"Omani unemployment or total unemployment?","answer":"Nationality is a core labour-market perimeter in Oman. Omani, expatriate and total measures should not be collapsed."},{"id":"OMN-M03","question":"Survey employment or administrative employment?","answer":"Administrative worker counts and household labour status answer different questions. Source type is part of the variable definition."},{"id":"OMN-M04","question":"Total GDP or non-oil activity?","answer":"Hydrocarbon production can materially move total output. Non-oil components are needed for domestic-demand interpretation."},{"id":"OMN-M05","question":"Can a fixed exchange rate be treated as a constant nominal conversion without a date?","answer":"The regime is fixed, but published official rates and accounting conventions still need source and date metadata."}],"ledger":[{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"FX regime","reference":"current","first":"OMR/USD fixed arrangement mapped","current":"same","revised":"Institutional baseline","url":"https://cbo.gov.om/"},{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"Labour perimeter","reference":"all records","first":"nationality required","current":"same","revised":"Method rule","url":"#measurement"}],"findings":[{"id":"OMN-001","title":"The peg is a constraint, not a complete monetary model.","body":"Oman's fixed exchange arrangement makes US monetary conditions highly relevant, but domestic liquidity facilities, bank funding and credit conditions remain separate transmission objects.","why":"Treating peg economies as mechanical copies can erase the very channels a policy or banking analysis needs to study."},{"id":"OMN-002","title":"Nationality belongs in the labour variable name.","body":"Oman's labour system distinguishes Omani and expatriate employment structures. A total rate or count can conceal a materially different national labour-market story.","why":"Same label, different perimeter is especially important in Gulf labour statistics."}],"program":[{"id":"OMN-001","title":"Peg transmission book","state":"active","description":"Pair Fed and CBO decisions with domestic liquidity and credit indicators."},{"id":"OMN-002","title":"Omani / expatriate labour map","state":"active","description":"Preserve nationality perimeter across survey and administrative sources."},{"id":"OMN-003","title":"Oil / non-oil growth decomposition","state":"queued","description":"Keep hydrocarbon volume effects separate from domestic-sector activity."},{"id":"OMN-004","title":"CPI release archive","state":"queued","description":"Preserve monthly price releases and basket/base metadata."},{"id":"OMN-005","title":"Administrative-versus-survey concordance","state":"active","description":"Document where employment constructs differ across source systems."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"5","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"institutional baseline","definition_audit":"labour + FX active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}},"BHR":{"country":"Bahrain","slug":"bahrain","status":"country-room-live","headline":"A labour number is not current merely because a dashboard still displays it.","dek":"Bahrain's room makes survey status and statistical freshness visible. It combines the Information & eGovernment Authority's official statistics with Central Bank of Bahrain monetary evidence while refusing to carry an old labour observation forward as if it described 2026.","indicators":[{"label":"FX regime","value":"fixed","unit":"BHD/USD","period":"current","release_date":"","source":"Central Bank of Bahrain","source_url":"https://www.cbb.gov.bh/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Bahraini dinar fixed exchange arrangement against the US dollar."},{"label":"CBB policy/facility rate","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"current","release_date":"","source":"Central Bank of Bahrain","source_url":"https://www.cbb.gov.bh/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Current rate withheld until the latest dated CBB decision notice and exact facility are preserved."},{"label":"Headline CPI","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official monthly release","release_date":"","source":"Information & eGovernment Authority","source_url":"https://www.data.gov.bh/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld pending directly preserved official CPI release."},{"label":"Unemployment","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest defensible official labour observation","release_date":"","source":"Information & eGovernment Authority / Labour Market Regulatory Authority","source_url":"https://www.data.gov.bh/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Not promoted as 'current' without a fresh survey/administrative definition and reference period."},{"label":"Real GDP growth","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official quarter","release_date":"","source":"Information & eGovernment Authority","source_url":"https://www.data.gov.bh/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld pending direct official national-accounts release."},{"label":"Bahraini / non-Bahraini labour","value":"separate","unit":"perimeter","period":"all labour records","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Nationality-specific employment indicators remain distinct."},{"label":"Survey freshness","value":"mandatory","unit":"reference date","period":"all labour indicators","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"A displayed value is never called current unless its underlying survey/administrative period supports that claim."},{"label":"Oil / non-oil split","value":"required","unit":"GDP context","period":"all growth analysis","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Aggregate output interpretation retains hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon structure."}],"sources":[{"domain":"Prices / national accounts / population","producer":"Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA)","release":"CPI, national accounts and official statistics","frequency":"monthly / quarterly / annual","format":"data portal / XLS / PDF","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.data.gov.bh/"},{"domain":"Labour administration","producer":"Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA)","release":"Employment and labour-market administrative statistics","frequency":"quarterly / annual","format":"web / tables / reports","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.lmra.gov.bh/"},{"domain":"Monetary / FX","producer":"Central Bank of Bahrain","release":"Policy facilities, exchange and banking statistics","frequency":"event / daily / monthly","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.cbb.gov.bh/"},{"domain":"Fiscal","producer":"Ministry of Finance and National Economy","release":"Budget and fiscal performance","frequency":"quarterly / annual","format":"web / PDF","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.mofne.gov.bh/"},{"domain":"Trade","producer":"iGA / customs","release":"External trade statistics","frequency":"monthly","format":"data portal / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.data.gov.bh/"}],"measurement_notes":[{"id":"BHR-M01","question":"If a labour figure is still on an official portal, is it a 2026 labour figure?","answer":"No. Publication availability and reference-period freshness are different metadata fields. 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The page requires the exact facility and decision date rather than a generic 'policy rate' field."},{"id":"BHR-M05","question":"Does Bahrain's dollar peg erase domestic credit conditions?","answer":"No. The peg shapes monetary policy, but bank liquidity, credit demand and domestic spreads remain separate measurable channels."}],"ledger":[{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"Labour freshness rule","reference":"all labour records","first":"reference period mandatory","current":"same","revised":"Method rule","url":"#measurement"},{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"FX regime","reference":"current","first":"BHD/USD fixed arrangement mapped","current":"same","revised":"Institutional baseline","url":"https://www.cbb.gov.bh/"}],"findings":[{"id":"BHR-001","title":"Freshness is a statistical property, not a website-layout property.","body":"A labour observation can remain visible long after its reference period. 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CBK publishes a discount rate plus repo rates at multiple tenors. The instrument must be named before comparison."},{"id":"KWT-M02","question":"Is the dinar pegged to the US dollar?","answer":"Not directly. CBK states that the KWD exchange rate is linked to a special weighted basket of currencies reflecting major trade and financial partners."},{"id":"KWT-M03","question":"Can overnight and one-month repo rates be plotted as one continuous series?","answer":"Only if tenor changes are explicitly modeled. They are different instruments, not missing versions of the same observation."},{"id":"KWT-M04","question":"Kuwaiti unemployment or total unemployment?","answer":"Nationality is a key perimeter in Kuwait's labour market. A total rate may answer a different policy question from a citizens-only rate."},{"id":"KWT-M05","question":"Does total GDP tell the same story as non-oil activity?","answer":"No. Hydrocarbon production can dominate aggregate output changes, so oil and non-oil components should be preserved separately."}],"ledger":[{"released":"current CBK key-rate baseline","indicator":"Discount + repo rates","reference":"current","first":"Discount 3.50%; repo O/N 3.625%; 1W 3.875%; 1M 4.125%","current":"same room baseline","revised":"Policy settings; monitor dated changes","url":"https://www.cbk.gov.kw/en/monetary-policy/market-operations/key-rates"},{"released":"current CBK regime baseline","indicator":"Exchange-rate policy","reference":"current","first":"special weighted currency basket","current":"same","revised":"Institutional baseline","url":"https://www.cbk.gov.kw/en/monetary-policy/exchange-rate-policy"}],"findings":[{"id":"KWT-001","title":"Kuwait's monetary stance cannot be represented by one unnamed rate.","body":"CBK currently publishes a 3.50% discount rate alongside repo rates of 3.625% overnight, 3.875% at one week and 4.125% at one month.","why":"Selecting one without instrument metadata can fabricate cross-country spreads or false policy changes."},{"id":"KWT-002","title":"Kuwait is a useful counterexample to 'Gulf currency = USD peg'.","body":"CBK describes the dinar's exchange-rate policy as linked to a special weighted basket of currencies of major trade and financial partners.","why":"Regional labels should not replace country-specific exchange-rate institutions."}],"program":[{"id":"KWT-001","title":"CBK instrument dictionary","state":"published-room finding","description":"Maintain discount and repo rates by tenor as separate series."},{"id":"KWT-002","title":"Basket-regime evidence note","state":"active","description":"Document what CBK says about the basket without inventing undisclosed weights."},{"id":"KWT-003","title":"Kuwaiti / non-Kuwaiti labour map","state":"queued","description":"Preserve nationality perimeter in labour indicators."},{"id":"KWT-004","title":"Oil / non-oil accounts ledger","state":"queued","description":"Track sector decomposition and revisions."},{"id":"KWT-005","title":"CPI release archive","state":"active","description":"Preserve official monthly price releases and metadata."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"4","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"rate baseline active","definition_audit":"monetary instruments active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}},"DZA":{"country":"Algeria","slug":"algeria","status":"country-room-live","headline":"Algiers CPI is not automatically Algeria CPI.","dek":"Algeria's room is organized around geographic scope, source language and index construction. ONS price releases commonly foreground the city of Algiers, while national interpretation requires checking the exact reference population and geography before repeating the headline.","indicators":[{"label":"CPI — promoted current value","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest ONS monthly release","release_date":"","source":"Office National des Statistiques","source_url":"https://www.ons.dz/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Current value withheld until geography, base and release bulletin are preserved together."},{"label":"CPI geography","value":"Algiers flag","unit":"perimeter check","period":"ONS price releases","release_date":"","source":"Office National des Statistiques","source_url":"https://www.ons.dz/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"ONS price communications can report the city of Algiers; the geography must not be silently relabeled national."},{"label":"Unemployment","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official labour survey","release_date":"","source":"Office National des Statistiques","source_url":"https://www.ons.dz/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Value withheld until a current survey release, age range and population perimeter are preserved."},{"label":"Real GDP growth","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"latest official national accounts","release_date":"","source":"Office National des Statistiques","source_url":"https://www.ons.dz/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Current value withheld pending directly preserved national accounts."},{"label":"Policy rate","value":"withheld","unit":"","period":"current","release_date":"","source":"Banque d'Algérie","source_url":"https://www.bank-of-algeria.dz/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"No rate promoted without exact Banque d'Algérie instrument and dated official notice."},{"label":"Official FX rate","value":"withheld","unit":"DZD per currency","period":"current","release_date":"","source":"Banque d'Algérie","source_url":"https://www.bank-of-algeria.dz/","vintage":"checked 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Official exchange-rate series is distinct from any informal-market rate."},{"label":"Hydrocarbon / non-hydrocarbon","value":"separate","unit":"GDP context","period":"all macro analysis","release_date":"17 Aug 2026 room rule","source":"MENA Lab","source_url":"#measurement","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"Hydrocarbon-sector movements are preserved separately from non-hydrocarbon activity where source accounts permit."},{"label":"Source language","value":"FR / AR","unit":"bilingual provenance","period":"current room","release_date":"17 Aug 2026","source":"MENA Lab from ONS / Banque d'Algérie","source_url":"#source-map","vintage":"frozen 17 Aug 2026","definition":"French and Arabic source terminology is preserved rather than silently normalized."}],"sources":[{"domain":"Prices","producer":"Office National des Statistiques (ONS)","release":"Indice des prix à la consommation","frequency":"monthly","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.ons.dz/"},{"domain":"Labour","producer":"ONS","release":"Employment / unemployment surveys","frequency":"survey-dependent / annual","format":"web / PDF / tables","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.ons.dz/"},{"domain":"National accounts","producer":"ONS","release":"National accounts and economic activity","frequency":"quarterly / annual","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.ons.dz/"},{"domain":"Monetary / FX","producer":"Banque d'Algérie","release":"Rates, exchange and monetary statistics","frequency":"daily / monthly / event","format":"web / PDF / XLS","archive_quality":"strong","url":"https://www.bank-of-algeria.dz/"},{"domain":"Fiscal / hydrocarbons","producer":"Ministry of Finance / Ministry of Energy","release":"Budget, hydrocarbon and sector statistics","frequency":"monthly / annual","format":"web / PDF","archive_quality":"partial","url":"https://www.mf.gov.dz/"}],"measurement_notes":[{"id":"DZA-M01","question":"Does an ONS Algiers CPI release measure all Algerian households?","answer":"Not automatically. If the source perimeter is the city of Algiers, the room keeps 'Algiers' in the variable name and does not promote it as national inflation."},{"id":"DZA-M02","question":"Official exchange rate or informal-market exchange rate?","answer":"They are separate statistical objects. A premium requires contemporaneous observations from both systems and should not be inferred from the official Banque d'Algérie rate alone."},{"id":"DZA-M03","question":"Can French and Arabic statistical labels be normalized by translation alone?","answer":"No. Original labels are retained because category boundaries and methodological terms can be lost in translation."},{"id":"DZA-M04","question":"Aggregate GDP or non-hydrocarbon activity?","answer":"Hydrocarbon production and prices can materially alter aggregate growth. Non-hydrocarbon components are essential for domestic-economy interpretation."},{"id":"DZA-M05","question":"Can an older unemployment survey be treated as current because no newer rate is prominent?","answer":"No. The reference period is mandatory and stale observations remain stale."}],"ledger":[{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"CPI geography rule","reference":"all ONS price records","first":"Algiers kept explicit when source says Algiers","current":"same","revised":"Method rule","url":"https://www.ons.dz/"},{"released":"room baseline 17 Aug 2026","indicator":"FX source rule","reference":"all exchange-rate records","first":"official and informal rates stored separately","current":"same","revised":"Method rule","url":"https://www.bank-of-algeria.dz/"}],"findings":[{"id":"DZA-001","title":"A city-level inflation series can become a fake national series in one missing word.","body":"Algerian ONS price communications can foreground the city of Algiers. 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Any claim about an informal-market gap requires a separate contemporaneous market observation and cannot be derived from the official series itself.","why":"This prevents official-rate data from being misused as evidence about a market it does not measure."}],"program":[{"id":"DZA-001","title":"Algiers versus national CPI perimeter map","state":"active","description":"Label every ONS price series with its exact geographic coverage."},{"id":"DZA-002","title":"Official / informal FX evidence protocol","state":"active","description":"Require two timestamp-matched sources before any premium calculation."},{"id":"DZA-003","title":"Hydrocarbon / non-hydrocarbon accounts","state":"queued","description":"Preserve sector decomposition in growth analysis."},{"id":"DZA-004","title":"Labour survey freshness ledger","state":"active","description":"Keep reference year and survey design visible for unemployment observations."},{"id":"DZA-005","title":"French / Arabic terminology registry","state":"queued","description":"Preserve original official labels alongside English explanatory metadata."}],"downloads":[],"status_box":{"primary_agencies_mapped":"4","active_release_series":"5","archived_source_releases":"0","revision_history":"perimeter baseline active","definition_audit":"CPI + FX active","independent_reproduction":"pending","last_checked":"17 Aug 2026"}}}}