MENA Open Data & Evidence Lab
Publications

Research outputs separated by purpose, evidence state and reproducibility burden.

The Lab distinguishes research releases, evidence briefs, data notes, data products, methods objects and replication work. A title appears as an actual publication only when a canonical record exists.

Research releases

Versioned, citable packages combining findings, data and audit state.

Latest · Research Release 004 · Published 17 Aug 2026

Statistical Memory Loss

A four-system survivability audit asking whether original release pages, underlying files, bilingual pairs, archive paths and machine-retrievable provenance still survive well enough to reconstruct what was actually published.

Version1.0
Systems4
Forensic cases8
EvidenceOfficial-source archive audit
OFFICIAL SOURCEREAL PUBLIC DATAFOUNDER PRODUCED
Research Release · Published

Research Release 003: The Revision Economy

First-release versus later-vintage GDP histories across Morocco, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, with measured revision size and direct audit of whether superseded evidence remains recoverable.

Version1.0
Date2026-08-17
Revision pairs10
ReviewIndependent reproduction pending
Research Release · Published

Research Release 002: CPI measurement, decision-time information sets and statistical transparency

Five-country CPI comparability, a real decision-time information-set reconstruction and a six-dimension statistical-transparency benchmark pilot.

Version1.0
Date2026-08-17
Countries5
Research objects3
Research Release · Published

Research Release 001: Official-statistics forensics, comparability and evidence lineage

Jordan archive timing forensics, five-country labour comparability and the seven-programme evidence architecture.

Version1.1
Date2026-08-17
Archive pairs6
ReviewIndependent reproduction pending

Canonical released / developing records

Current registry-backed objects.

Benchmark · Public alpha

MENA-STAT-ID: Statistical Identity Benchmark

A bilingual, vintage-aware construction alpha testing whether a system preserves population, period, unit, method, vintage and source when retrieving or comparing official MENA statistics.

Version0.1.0-alpha
Cases42
Prompt variants84
Review0 external reviewers
OFFICIAL SOURCEREAL PUBLIC DATAPENDING VALIDATION
Release Forensics · Published

Saudi Arabia Didn't Become 14% Larger Overnight

A source-linked forensic case on GASTAT's comprehensive revision of 2023 GDP: +14.1%, +SAR 566 billion, a materially higher non-oil share and large changes in estimated sector activity. The note separates statistical revision from economic growth and documents why source and vintage are distinct research metadata.

Version1.0
Date2026-08-18
GeographySaudi Arabia
SeverityR3 candidate
OFFICIAL SOURCEREAL PUBLIC DATAFOUNDER PRODUCED
Evidence Note · Published

Same Label, Different Statistic #001: Which Saudi unemployment rate are you comparing?

A source-linked Saudi Arabia–Jordan unemployment comparability audit showing why Saudi Arabia's 6.4% rate among Saudis cannot be directly compared with Jordan's 16.1% total-population rate. Introduces the MENA Lab Comparability Record and PASS / CAUTION / FAIL / UNKNOWN audit protocol.

Version1.0
Date2026-08-18
GeographySaudi Arabia · Jordan
AuditPopulation scope
OFFICIAL SOURCEREAL PUBLIC DATAFOUNDER PRODUCED
Evidence Brief · Published

Jordan CPI, January–June 2026

A source-linked descriptive note showing that Jordan's annual headline CPI rate rose from 1.06% in January to 2.83% in May 2026 before easing to 2.79% in June, while month-on-month inflation cooled to 0.14% by June.

Version1.0
Date2026-08-17
EvidenceOfficial public data
GeographyJordan
Data Note · Published

When does the same unemployment rate stop meaning the same thing?

A source-linked comparison of Jordan, Egypt and Morocco showing why age framework, population perimeter and classification architecture must travel with the headline unemployment rate.

Data product · live

MENA Funding & Procurement Intelligence

A normalized official-source procurement evidence product covering the Lab’s current documented source perimeter.

Versionpublic-preview
Date2026-08-13
EvidenceOfficial public data
ReviewInternal QA documented
Dataset · release candidate

Official Price Release Observatory

A source-linked release-candidate dataset preserving geography, period, release information and provenance.

Dataset · collection

MENA Firm AI Adoption and Labor Adjustment

A developing 50-firm panel linking employment observations to saved source evidence and explicit reporting-perimeter warnings.

Teaching

Workshop 001 — Reproducing an Economics Paper from Raw Data

A 90-minute reproducibility workshop package. Delivery and archive status remain governed by the event record.

Data Notes

Measurement and construction records.

Current notes include labour comparability and the Release 002 measurement matrices.

Methods

Pipeline, not publication slate.

Statistical vintages, release timing, PDF-origin provenance and independent second coding receive publication identifiers only when the object is citable.

Open methods pipeline →
Replication Reports

Claim → reproduced result → discrepancy → resolution.

No public object-level replication report is listed until the underlying mapping and disclosure record are publishable.

Validation register →

Required publication anatomy

title · authors · abstract · publication date · version · evidence type · geography · data · code · methodology · review state · corrections · license/DOI when actually issued · suggested citation.

Machine-readable access

Publication registry JSON · Release registry JSON · Validation registry JSON.