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  "status": "research_design_only",
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    {
      "id": "LAB-001",
      "title": "UC Computer Science Fit",
      "question": "What UC is the best fit for computer science, given cost, program access, and the outcomes you care about?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-013",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "institution-program-cohort",
      "grain": "Institution × CIP program × credential × cohort",
      "join_keys": [
        "UNITID",
        "CIP version/code",
        "credential",
        "cohort"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Program availability and major-entry restrictions",
        "Field-level completer earnings and debt",
        "Program completions",
        "Published resident cost and income-band net price, separately"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "ipeds",
        "scorecard",
        "uc"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Match CIP and credential before joining",
        "Keep earnings population and measurement period explicit",
        "Document user criteria; no hidden weighted ranking"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "Earnings do not measure teaching quality or causal program value.",
        "Program restrictions need campus-level evidence.",
        "Suppressed or absent program outcomes stay missing."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Cost–Outcome Scatterplot",
        "Program Coverage Matrix",
        "Sortable Comparison"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-002",
      "title": "Medical School Pathway Evidence",
      "question": "What campus has the highest medical school acceptance rate, and can those rates actually be compared?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-001",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "undergraduate-origin-application-cycle",
      "grain": "Undergraduate origin × application cycle × applicant population",
      "join_keys": [
        "origin institution",
        "cycle",
        "MD/DO scope",
        "applicant definition"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Unique applicants",
        "Unique applicants accepted by at least one school",
        "Matriculants as a separate measure",
        "Coverage of alumni, postbaccalaureate, and committee-screened applicants"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "aamc",
        "uc"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Require compatible accepted-applicant numerator and applicant denominator",
        "Reject medical-school selectivity as an undergraduate outcome",
        "Record self-selection and advising-committee filters"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "No comparable undergraduate-campus acceptance-rate dataset is established.",
        "Applicant supply and matriculation counts cannot be relabeled acceptance rates.",
        "This question may remain unanswerable from comparable public evidence."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Denominator Audit",
        "Evidence Coverage Table",
        "Rates Only When Comparable"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-003",
      "title": "Social Mobility Evidence",
      "question": "Which UC campuses perform strongly on a clearly defined social mobility measure?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-007",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "institution-access-outcome",
      "grain": "Institution × defined access/outcome population × cohort",
      "join_keys": [
        "UNITID",
        "cohort",
        "income band",
        "measure definition"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Pell access",
        "Income-band net price",
        "Completion by reported group",
        "Earnings or mobility outcomes where qualified"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "ipeds",
        "scorecard",
        "uc"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Distinguish access from outcomes",
        "Do not multiply incompatible cohort metrics",
        "Name the publisher, edition, and reuse rights for any external index"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "These indicators are not automatically a social mobility index.",
        "A proprietary ranking cannot be reconstructed or republished without appropriate rights.",
        "Selection and population differences limit causal claims."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Access–Outcome Plot",
        "Income-Band Heatmap",
        "Method Comparison"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-004",
      "title": "Faculty Research Impact",
      "question": "Which campuses have the most cited research after accounting for field, publication year, and institution size?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-001",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "work-institution-field-year",
      "grain": "Scholarly work × attributed institution × field × publication year",
      "join_keys": [
        "work ID",
        "institution ID/ROR",
        "field",
        "publication year"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Citation counts at a fixed observation date",
        "Fractional and whole-count attribution, separately",
        "Field/year-normalized impact where reproducible",
        "Research expenditure as separate context"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "openalex",
        "herd"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Disambiguate campus, medical center, and author affiliations",
        "Preserve citation observation date and self-citation policy",
        "Report coverage and counting method"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "No faculty citation ranking has been collected.",
        "Affiliation does not establish current faculty membership.",
        "Citations measure a form of research attention, not teaching quality."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Field-Normalized Dot Plot",
        "Publication-Year Trend",
        "Coverage Matrix"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-005",
      "title": "CCC to UC Graduate Pathways",
      "question": "Which CCC produces the most UC graduates, rather than simply sending the most transfer applicants?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-003",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "sending-college-destination-cohort",
      "grain": "Sending CCC × receiving UC × entry cohort × outcome horizon",
      "join_keys": [
        "sending college ID",
        "receiving campus ID",
        "entry cohort",
        "outcome horizon"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Transfer applicants, admits, and enrollees as separate stages",
        "Subsequent UC degrees if a qualified linkage exists",
        "Completion rate using the same entering transfer cohort",
        "Volume and size-adjusted rate, separately"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "uc-source",
        "uc-outcomes",
        "ccc"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Require a sending-college-to-degree linkage for graduate counts",
        "No multiplication of unrelated aggregate rates",
        "Account for multiple applications and cohort censoring"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "Official source-school admissions data are not graduation data.",
        "The required public outcome linkage is not established.",
        "A large transfer pipeline does not prove a higher chance of graduating."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Transfer-to-Degree Funnel",
        "Cohort Matrix",
        "Volume–Rate Comparison"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-006",
      "title": "Career Resilience by Major",
      "question": "Which majors connect to occupations with stronger openings, wage profiles, and diversification?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-034",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Job Seekers",
        "Employees",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "program-occupation-region",
      "grain": "CIP program × SOC occupation × geography × projection vintage",
      "join_keys": [
        "CIP version",
        "SOC version",
        "crosswalk version",
        "region",
        "projection period"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Projected growth and annual openings, separately",
        "Occupational wage percentiles",
        "Entry education and licensing requirements",
        "Number and concentration of plausible occupational routes"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "bls",
        "oews",
        "edd",
        "scorecard"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Use many-to-many program/occupation mappings",
        "Separate national from state/local forecasts",
        "Do not call projections a probability of keeping a job"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "Job security is not directly measured by projected growth.",
        "A major does not determine an occupation or individual earnings.",
        "Technology, geography, and recessions can change outcomes."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Openings–Wage Scatterplot",
        "Program–Occupation Network",
        "Regional Heatmap"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-007",
      "title": "Affordability Across Income Bands",
      "question": "Which colleges remain affordable across income bands after grant aid and living costs?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-004",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "institution-income-cohort",
      "grain": "Institution × income band × aid population × reporting year",
      "join_keys": [
        "UNITID",
        "income band",
        "aid cohort",
        "reporting year"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Income-band net price",
        "Published cost before aid",
        "Completion and debt as separate outcomes",
        "Housing and insurance inclusions"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "scorecard",
        "ipeds",
        "uc"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Keep current budgets separate from historical net price",
        "Use the exact covered aid population",
        "Disclose source discrepancies and unequal coverage"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "The college affordability pack remains pending source and release review.",
        "This blueprint is not a release of the pending real-data pack.",
        "Net price is not a personalized aid offer."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Income-Band Bars",
        "Cost Component Stacks",
        "Tradeoff Plot"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-008",
      "title": "ASSIST Agreement Explainer",
      "question": "What does this exact articulation agreement require, and where could a transfer plan lose time or credit?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-008",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "articulation-agreement-course-group",
      "grain": "Sending institution × receiving program × agreement year × requirement group",
      "join_keys": [
        "sending ID",
        "receiving ID",
        "major",
        "agreement year",
        "course group"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Required and optional course groups",
        "AND/OR logic and sequence constraints",
        "Agreement exceptions",
        "Documented units and availability"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "assist",
        "ccc",
        "uc"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Preserve every condition and official agreement link",
        "Keep summaries distinct from counselor/registrar decisions",
        "Never infer an agreement across years"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "No private transcript is required or collected.",
        "Credit applicability and admission are different questions.",
        "Unavailable source text cannot be reconstructed from guesses."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Requirement Flow",
        "Course Sequence Map",
        "Agreement Difference View"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-009",
      "title": "HBCU Program and Opportunity Fit",
      "question": "Which HBCUs fit a chosen field, aid need, and graduate or career pathway?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-018",
      "audiences": [
        "Students",
        "Counselors",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "institution-program-opportunity",
      "grain": "Institution × program × aid/outcome population × period",
      "join_keys": [
        "UNITID",
        "CIP",
        "credential",
        "aid population",
        "period"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Program and credential availability",
        "Income-band affordability",
        "Completion for comparable entrants",
        "Documented research and graduate pathways"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "ipeds",
        "scorecard",
        "herd"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Verify institutional designation and program identity",
        "Compare matched mission/degree levels",
        "Avoid institutional-size bias"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "No universal HBCU ranking is proposed.",
        "Research funding is not an undergraduate outcome.",
        "Graduate placement claims need their own population and year."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Program Fit Matrix",
        "Aid–Completion Plot",
        "Pathway Cards"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-010",
      "title": "Regional Career Transition",
      "question": "Which realistic career moves combine transferable skills, local openings, and manageable retraining?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-034",
      "audiences": [
        "Job Seekers",
        "Employees",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "occupation-transition-region",
      "grain": "Origin occupation × destination occupation × region × period",
      "join_keys": [
        "origin SOC",
        "destination SOC",
        "region",
        "crosswalk/version"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Published skill and entry requirements",
        "Local wages and openings",
        "Training duration and direct cost",
        "Licensing and credential constraints"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "edd",
        "bls",
        "oews"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Keep observed requirements separate from inferred skill fit",
        "Show training assumptions and missing tuition",
        "No individual hiring probability"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "This is planning evidence rather than a placement service.",
        "National projections do not establish local vacancies.",
        "Do not infer employee performance or collect private personnel data."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Transition Network",
        "Training–Wage Plot",
        "Opportunity Matrix"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-011",
      "title": "Regional Business Opportunity",
      "question": "Where do industry growth, customer context, and competitive density suggest a question worth testing?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-039",
      "audiences": [
        "Job Seekers",
        "Employees",
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "industry-geography-period",
      "grain": "NAICS industry × geography × survey/reporting period",
      "join_keys": [
        "NAICS version",
        "geographic ID",
        "period",
        "survey"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Establishment density",
        "Employment and wage trend",
        "Population and income with uncertainty",
        "Business applications versus employer formations"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "census",
        "bls",
        "edd"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Align geography and industry versions",
        "Preserve margins of error and suppression",
        "Separate indicators from verified paying demand"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "No revenue forecast or investment recommendation.",
        "Applications are not operating or surviving businesses.",
        "A market signal requires customer validation."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Industry Concentration Map",
        "Employment Trend",
        "Density–Growth Plot"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "LAB-012",
      "title": "Agent-Ready Evidence and Change Feed",
      "question": "Can an analyst or agent retrieve a comparable answer, trace every field, and detect when it changes?",
      "parent_id": "KIT-050",
      "audiences": [
        "Analysts",
        "Agents"
      ],
      "status": "research_blueprint",
      "model": "versioned-observation-claim",
      "grain": "Canonical entity × metric × population × period × source revision",
      "join_keys": [
        "entity ID",
        "metric ID",
        "population",
        "period",
        "source revision"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        "Field completeness and suppression",
        "Freshness by source cadence",
        "Changed definitions and values",
        "Accepted delivery and validation state"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "ipeds",
        "scorecard",
        "uc",
        "bls",
        "edd"
      ],
      "acceptance_checks": [
        "Version schema and metric definitions",
        "Keep unknown distinct from zero",
        "Produce matching CSV/JSON and immutable manifests"
      ],
      "evidence_limits": [
        "A connector is not an active hosted API.",
        "Source availability is not product acceptance.",
        "No provider calls or paid refreshes are activated by this design."
      ],
      "visuals": [
        "Coverage Heatmap",
        "Revision Diff",
        "Source Freshness Timeline"
      ],
      "result_path": null,
      "outputs": [
        "CSV",
        "JSON",
        "Data Dictionary",
        "Source Register",
        "Report Template"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lenses": [
    {
      "id": "compare",
      "title": "Comparable Peers",
      "rule": "Match population, unit, period, and scope before comparing entities."
    },
    {
      "id": "trend",
      "title": "Change Over Time",
      "rule": "Use compatible vintages and expose definition breaks."
    },
    {
      "id": "access",
      "title": "Access and Distribution",
      "rule": "Use reported subgroup coverage without inferring private traits."
    },
    {
      "id": "geography",
      "title": "Place and Pathways",
      "rule": "Keep geographic boundaries and sending/destination identities explicit."
    },
    {
      "id": "tradeoff",
      "title": "Cost and Outcome Tradeoffs",
      "rule": "Show dimensions separately; do not invent a composite best score."
    },
    {
      "id": "robustness",
      "title": "Evidence and Sensitivity",
      "rule": "Inspect missingness, source disagreement, denominator choices, and alternative assumptions."
    }
  ],
  "sources": {
    "ipeds": {
      "name": "NCES IPEDS",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of Education",
      "url": "https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/search",
      "scope": "Institutional characteristics, costs, aid, enrollment, completions, and defined outcome cohorts.",
      "review": "Official data catalog inspected; individual release files and reuse conditions still need qualification."
    },
    "scorecard": {
      "name": "College Scorecard",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of Education",
      "url": "https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/college-scorecard",
      "scope": "Institution and field-of-study data, with population, cohort, and suppression rules.",
      "review": "Official catalog identified; direct documentation access returned 403. No field-level extract qualified here."
    },
    "uc": {
      "name": "UC Information Center",
      "publisher": "University of California",
      "url": "https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-uc/information-center",
      "scope": "Admissions, transfer, enrollment, outcomes, and other systemwide dashboards.",
      "review": "Official catalog inspected; each dashboard and export needs its own definition and reuse review."
    },
    "uc-source": {
      "name": "UC Admissions by Source School",
      "publisher": "University of California",
      "url": "https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-uc/information-center/admissions-source-school",
      "scope": "Applicants, admits, and enrollees by sending school. These are not counts of later UC graduates.",
      "review": "Official definitions inspected October 26, 2026. No new tabular extract collected."
    },
    "uc-outcomes": {
      "name": "UC Student Success Dashboards",
      "publisher": "University of California",
      "url": "https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-uc/information-center/uc-student-success-dashboards",
      "scope": "Cohort-based retention, time to degree, and graduation dashboards.",
      "review": "Official discovery evidence. A sending-CCC-to-UC-graduation linkage is not established."
    },
    "ccc": {
      "name": "California Community Colleges Data",
      "publisher": "California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office",
      "url": "https://datamart.cccco.edu/",
      "scope": "California community college enrollment, awards, and outcome reporting.",
      "review": "Source candidate; verify available measures, TOP codes, suppression, and export terms before use."
    },
    "assist": {
      "name": "ASSIST",
      "publisher": "ASSIST",
      "url": "https://assist.org/",
      "scope": "Official articulation agreements by sending institution, receiving institution, major, and year.",
      "review": "Source plan only. Preserve official conditions and link back; do not claim an articulation decision."
    },
    "bls": {
      "name": "BLS Employment Projections",
      "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "url": "https://www.bls.gov/emp/frequently-asked-questions.htm",
      "scope": "Projected occupation and industry employment. Jobs and people are different units; projections do not establish shortages or individual job security.",
      "review": "Official methodological FAQ inspected October 26, 2026; no projection table ingested."
    },
    "oews": {
      "name": "BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics",
      "publisher": "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics",
      "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/",
      "scope": "Employment and wage estimates by occupation and geography.",
      "review": "Source candidate; inspect vintage, coverage, uncertainty, and occupational code compatibility."
    },
    "edd": {
      "name": "California EDD Employment Projections",
      "publisher": "California Employment Development Department",
      "url": "https://labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/employment-projections.html",
      "scope": "State and local projections; program-to-occupation tools connecting TOP or CIP with occupational outlook.",
      "review": "Official source discovery inspected. Local periods and crosswalk revisions remain unverified."
    },
    "aamc": {
      "name": "AAMC FACTS",
      "publisher": "Association of American Medical Colleges",
      "url": "https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/data/2024-facts",
      "scope": "Applicant and matriculant tables with table-specific populations. Undergraduate applicant counts alone cannot yield undergraduate-campus acceptance rates.",
      "review": "Official table discovery only. This linked edition is historical, not a claim of the latest release. Licensing and complete numerator/denominator availability remain open."
    },
    "openalex": {
      "name": "OpenAlex",
      "publisher": "OurResearch",
      "url": "https://openalex.org/",
      "scope": "Scholarly works, affiliations, and citation metadata; affiliation matching and field/year normalization are required.",
      "review": "Source candidate. Documentation retrieval failed; current API access, licensing, and normalization methodology need verification."
    },
    "herd": {
      "name": "NCSES Higher Education R&D Survey",
      "publisher": "U.S. National Science Foundation",
      "url": "https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/higher-education-research-development",
      "scope": "Institutional research expenditures. Spending is a separate metric from citation impact and teaching quality.",
      "review": "Source candidate; qualify survey year, institution boundary, field classification, and comparability."
    },
    "census": {
      "name": "Census Data",
      "publisher": "U.S. Census Bureau",
      "url": "https://data.census.gov/",
      "scope": "Population, economic, and geographic context with survey-specific uncertainty.",
      "review": "Source candidate; preserve geography, period, survey, and margins of error."
    },
    "csac": {
      "name": "California Student Aid Commission",
      "publisher": "State of California",
      "url": "https://www.csac.ca.gov/",
      "scope": "State aid program guidance and award-year conditions.",
      "review": "Source candidate; verify current award-year rules and deadlines before answering eligibility questions."
    }
  }
}