feat(coverage): n_units_collected separates sampling from real zeros (#36)
provenance$coverage's n_units_reporting is category-conditional: it counts governments with rows for the SPECIFIC requested category, which conflates two different things -- a government never collected that year (sampling), and one collected but genuinely spending nothing in that category (a real zero). FY2012 Georgia Police is the motivating case from the issue: a complete census year reads as a 69% "response rate" because most of the gap is cities that contract policing to the county sheriff, not non-response. Adds a second counter, n_units_collected: how many of the caller's expected cohort appear in the corpus that year for ANY category. n_units_collected / n_units_expected is the true collection rate; n_units_reporting / n_units_collected is category participation among collected units. cog_geographic_rollup() and cog_peer_compare() both carry it; cog_explain() prints it alongside n_units_reporting. Two real bugs caught and fixed while finishing this (both against the already-written, previously-uncommitted draft): - .coverage_table()'s candidate list for the collection query was derived from the category-filtered result rows, not the caller's full expected cohort. A government with zero rows in the requested category across every requested year never appears in that result, so it was silently excluded from n_units_collected too -- collapsing the new counter back to the old, broken one for exactly the governments it exists to count. Fixed by threading an explicit `expected_ids` (all_govids / peer_govids) through instead. - The collection query hardcoded long_view = "spending_long_harmonized", which does not exist on a corpus with schema_version < 5 (R/basis.R resolves basis = "raw" there; R/views.R only registers the harmonized views on v5+). cog_geographic_rollup()/cog_peer_compare() would hard-error on a corpus vintage the package otherwise explicitly supports. Fixed by deriving long_view from the basis cog_spending() actually resolved (prov$basis) via the existing .select_long_view() helper, matching how every other basis-aware query in the package already does this. Also: cog_explain()'s general "complete census only in years ending in 2 or 7" footnote was gated on the OLD counter's absence, making it permanently unreachable now that both callers always supply the new one -- ungated it, since the explanation is orthogonal to which counter set is present. Dropped a dead conditional branch, fixed two stale roxygen blocks in R/peers.R/R/rollup.R still describing the old two-counter model, fixed the same staleness in README.md, and switched two `uscogdata:::` self-references to the package's own convention of calling internal helpers unqualified. 1101 tests pass (2 skipped live-corpus), including new direct regression tests for both bugs above (one exercising a government collected-but-absent from a category result, one running the full rollup/peer-compare path against a doctored schema_version 4 corpus). Reviewed by an independent code-reviewer pass (1 HIGH, 1 MEDIUM, 3 LOW -- all addressed above). Closes #36. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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a balanced panel.
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Regardless of mode, `provenance$coverage` always carries per-year
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`n_units_reporting`, `n_units_expected` and `is_census_year`, and
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`provenance$coverage_mode` records the mode. `is_census_year` is a
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statement about the **survey calendar**, never a claim of completeness:
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FY1967 is a census year in which only 97 of Wisconsin's 608 cities
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report. `n_units_reporting` is the number that tells the truth.
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`n_units_expected`, `n_units_collected`, `n_units_reporting` and
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`is_census_year`, and `provenance$coverage_mode` records the mode.
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`is_census_year` is a statement about the **survey calendar**, never a
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claim of completeness: FY1967 is a census year in which only 97 of
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Wisconsin's 608 cities report. `n_units_reporting` is
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category-conditional and is not a response rate on its own -- see
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"Reading `coverage`" below for what each counter answers.
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The comparison target is exempt from `"consistent"` balancing -- it is the
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subject of the comparison, not a member of the cohort -- and the
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\section{Reading `coverage`}{
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`provenance$coverage` reports `n_units_reporting` against
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`n_units_expected` per year. **`n_units_reporting` is category-conditional:
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it counts cohort members with rows for the category you asked for, not
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cohort members collected that year.** A government that was surveyed and
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genuinely spends nothing in that category is indistinguishable here from one
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that was never surveyed.
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`provenance$coverage` carries three per-year counters:
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* `n_units_expected` -- how many governments you asked about.
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* `n_units_collected` -- how many of those appear in the corpus at all
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that year (in ANY category), separating sampling from real zeros.
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* `n_units_reporting` -- how many have rows for the SPECIFIC category you
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requested. This is always <= n_units_collected: a government can be
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collected but have no rows for "Police" because it contracts policing
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to the county sheriff, not because it wasn't surveyed.
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**`n_units_reporting` is category-conditional** and therefore **not a
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response rate**: `n_units_reporting / n_units_expected` conflates sampling
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(never collected) with real zeros (collected but spends nothing in your
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category). Use `n_units_collected / n_units_expected` for the true
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collection rate, and `n_units_reporting / n_units_collected` for category
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participation among collected units.
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The ratio is therefore **not a response rate** and must not be used as one.
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In FY2022 — a complete census year — Georgia reports 393 of 567 cities for
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`category = "Police"`; the 174-city gap is overwhelmingly cities that
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contract policing to the county sheriff, not non-response.
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