What the record says
Availability. No current finding is published for Official-data darkness because the source status is stale.
This report is scoped to data-darkness. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.
How it was measured
publication-cadence watch: each surface reports the latest release visible from this vantage, scored as days-since against its own nominal cadence (business-day basis for daily series, so weekends are not darkness; Chinese public holidays are not modelled and appear as short recurring spikes the detector's reference learns). NBS series additionally carry days_past_promise, scored against the state's own published release calendar — a promise date is sharper than a learned rhythm. darkness_index is the mean staleness ratio over surfaces that answered. A surface that could not be fetched is listed as unreachable and excluded — vantage trouble is not withholding (nra.gov.cn in particular is known to gate some foreign vantages). A high index states that official surfaces are late against their own rhythm; it does not establish intent
What this cannot establish
- Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed
- Publication delay, calendar changes and collection failure can resemble withholding; per-series state is required for interpretation.
Palimpsest addition
Instrument brief
availability-brief · Evidence stale
Palimpsest withholds a current finding for data-darkness: the source status is stale. This is an availability brief, not a measurement.
Key number
- withheld headline metric · withheld because the source is not live
Current number and denominator
- No current number is published for data-darkness because the newsroom status is stale. The retained metric is withheld.
- No current finding is published for Official-data darkness because the source status is stale.
Same-edition board context
- Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: none.
- No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.
What this reading does not show
- Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed
- The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
- publication-cadence watch: each surface reports the latest release visible from this vantage, scored as days-since against its own nominal cadence (business-day basis for daily series, so weekends are not darkness; Chinese public holidays are not modelled and appear as short recurring spikes the detector's reference learns). NBS series additionally carry days_past_promise, scored against the state's own published release calendar - a promise date is sharper than a learned rhythm. darkness_index is the mean staleness ratio over surfaces that answered. A surface that could not be fetched is listed as unreachable and excluded - vantage trouble is not withholding (nra.gov.cn in particular is known to gate some foreign vantages). A high index states that official surfaces are late against their own rhythm; it does not establish intent
Elevated peers this edition
none named
Counterreadings
- A current or withheld instrument value is not independent corroboration of any publisher article, and it is not a cause.
- Co-movement with another live signal on this edition is layer context, not a shared rate or a coordinated action.
Limitations
- Current finding withheld: freshness deadline has passed
- The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.
Analysis instrumentv-706d7423fecfd70bbbd6f1f3 · structured assessment · reading companion
Read the evidence
The exact source reading is data-darkness-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.