Docs
How this is made, in public.
DPA is meant to outlast whoever is running it. These pages are the working notes that make that possible: the rules governing what gets published, and the steps that produce a report. Where something is not written down yet, it says so.
How we handle the data
What gets published, what gets held back, and how you may reuse it.
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Data safety rules for what gets published
Small-cohort suppression, disclosure rules, and how to ask for a correction.
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Using our data
Licence, attribution, and what the numbers will and will not support.
Running DPA
What it takes to produce a report, written for whoever runs the next one.
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Run a cycle
Survey to publication, and what to do with the site between reports.
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How to contribute
How to add your pay data, what stays anonymous, and how to cite or reuse a published figure.
Elsewhere
Report methodology is published per year with each report, since survey design changes between cycles. The publication contract, ownership matrix, and route inventory live in the public repository.