{
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "record_id": "MENALAB-RF-001",
  "series": "Release Forensics",
  "country": "Saudi Arabia",
  "indicator": "Gross domestic product at current prices",
  "unit": "SAR",
  "reference_period": "2023",
  "revision_announced": "2025-05-01",
  "relative_revision_pct": 14.1,
  "absolute_revision_sar_billion": 566,
  "revised_total_announcement": "approximately SAR 4.5 trillion",
  "previous_value_status": "not promoted from rounded announcement arithmetic",
  "non_oil_share_revised_pct": 53.2,
  "non_oil_share_revision_pp": 5.7,
  "non_oil_share_previous_implied_pct": 47.5,
  "non_oil_share_previous_note": "Arithmetic implication of rounded GASTAT values; not treated as a separately quoted observation.",
  "sector_estimate_changes_pct": {
    "construction": 61.0,
    "wholesale_retail_restaurants_hotels": 29.8,
    "transport_storage_communications": 25.6
  },
  "methodological_inputs": [
    "Comprehensive Economic Survey",
    "Household Income and Expenditure Survey",
    "Comprehensive Agricultural Survey",
    "expanded administrative data",
    "more detailed supply-and-use tables",
    "expanded classification from 85 to 134 economic activities"
  ],
  "real_gdp_method_note": "GASTAT also adopted chain-linked methodology for real-GDP measurement; this record does not attribute the 14.1% current-price level revision to chain-linking.",
  "historical_series_treatment": "recalibrated/backcast following the comprehensive revision",
  "research_significance": "High: may affect GDP ratios, sector shares, productivity estimates, coefficients, cross-country comparisons and historical narratives.",
  "severity_status": "R3 candidate — thresholds not yet calibrated",
  "primary_sources": [
    "https://stats.gov.sa/en/w/news/38",
    "https://stats.gov.sa/en/w/frequently-asked-questions-gdp-comprehensive-revision",
    "https://stats.gov.sa/en/w/statistical-methodology-comprehensive-revision-of-gross-domestic-product-gdp-"
  ],
  "web_note": "/release-forensics-001.html",
  "related_release": "/release-003.html",
  "publication_date": "2026-08-18",
  "version": "1.0"
}