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Real-world data, methodology intact.

Administrative data is usually either unavailable or arrives stripped of the context that makes it usable — no sample design, no coverage information, no sense of what is missing. Civiq.plus keeps provenance and confidence attached to the record, and exposes them on export.

Provenance

On every score

7 factors

In the confidence model

Snapshots

Point-in-time comparison

Aggregate

Default analysis unit

The problem

What teams tell us before they start

These are the patterns that come up most often in scoping conversations for this kind of organisation.

Data arrives without its caveats

An extract gives you counts but not coverage, so it is impossible to distinguish a place with no problems from a place with no reporting.

No point-in-time reconstruction

Systems that only hold current state cannot answer what was known on a given date, which rules out most before-and-after designs.

Individual-level data is a liability

Research access to person-level civic data creates privacy exposure that is rarely proportionate to the analytical gain.

Selection effects are invisible

Feedback arrives from the people who have the means and confidence to report, and nothing in the data marks that skew.

Capabilities

What Civiq.plus brings to it

Confidence and provenance

Every score exposes freshness, survey coverage, field reporting, community coverage, source diversity and model confidence.

  • Seven weighted contributors
  • Coverage distinguishable from absence
  • Model version on every estimate

Historical snapshots

Periodic snapshots let you reconstruct what the state of a geography was on a given date, not just what it is now.

  • Point-in-time reconstruction
  • Pre and post windows
  • Append-only event history

Aggregate by design

The platform is built for aggregate geographic, cohort and community intelligence — not covert individual-level profiling.

  • No hidden individual persuasion profiles
  • PII minimisation and separate identity vault
  • Aggregate cohort analysis

Survey metadata preserved

Sample design, response mode, field dates, weighting method and representativeness labels travel with the result.

  • Mode recorded per response
  • Weighting method stated
  • Non-representative polls labelled

Permission-scoped export

CSV, JSON and geospatial export scoped to what the requesting account is entitled to, with no uncontrolled personal data.

  • Export scoped to permissions
  • Geospatial formats supported
  • Export events audited

Study design support

Impact studies record their comparison method and known confounders as structured fields rather than prose.

  • Control or comparison method
  • Confounder registry
  • Confidence interval and grade

Outcomes

What changes in practice

  • Extracts that carry their own coverage and confidence
  • Point-in-time state for before-and-after designs
  • Aggregate units that reduce privacy exposure
  • Survey results with sample design attached
  • Selection effects that are visible rather than assumed away
“The useful part is not the count. It is knowing how much of the district the count actually covers.”

A note from a policy research collaboration

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