Latency
Statistical asynchrony
How quickly different indicator families and countries become observable.
Real-time macroeconomic measurement · live seed
MENA-RTD
A real-time data and vintages system for reconstructing the economic information set that actually existed on a historical date. Later revisions remain available without leaking backward into the past.
The first release-clock result
Q1 2026 ended on the same date. The recorded release objects did not arrive together.
Saudi · flash29d
Saudi · fuller Q169d
Morocco90d
Jordan · observed page96d
Oman · catalogue103d
These are heterogeneous release objects, intentionally preserved as such. The 29→103 spread is evidence of statistical asynchrony in the current seed, not yet a harmonized ranking of first-publication performance.
Core query
What was actually knowable on date d?
MENA-RTD defines the historical information set as the collection of source-verified observations publicly available by a chosen cutoff. The system is designed to answer a question latest-vintage databases usually cannot: whether an observation existed yet, which vintage existed, and under which methodology.
Observation contract
The system stores release state rather than only a country-period value.
country
indicator
reference_period
release_timestamp
release_stage
vintage_id
value
unit
methodology_version
source_url
source_hash
retrieved_at
predecessor_vintage
successor_vintage
revision_value
comparability_state
validation_state
Research outputs unlocked by the archive
Leakage
Hindsight contamination
Whether historical models use observations or revisions that were unavailable at the claimed cutoff.
Revision
News versus noise
Whether later revisions look like new information or predictable correction of earlier measurement error.
Completeness
Regional information frontier
What fraction of regional output has become statistically observable at each date after a reference period ends.
Build boundary. The current public system is a source-linked seed, not a complete 2015–2026 regional archive. The next build target is ten economies and five indicator families, with release-stage distinctions preserved rather than silently harmonized.