# uscogdata 0.1.0 (development) ## Per-capita denominators now use per-year Census F-33 population * `cog_spending()` and `cog_revenue()` previously divided all years' amounts by a single ACS 2018-2022 estimate (`canonical_fips_xwalk.population_acs`), producing biased per-capita values for time-series analysis. They now divide by the F-33 `population` recorded on each gov-year via the new `gov_population_yearly` view. Result tibbles gain a `pop_source` column with values `"census_f33"` or `"unavailable"`. `notes` is updated to concatenate multiple notes with `"; "`. ## Peer cohorts can be set to a chosen year * `cog_find_peers()` adds a `year` argument (default: most recent year for which the target has an observed population in `gov_population_yearly`). The returned column previously named `population_acs` is now `population` and reflects the cohort year's vintage. The cohort year is attached to the returned tibble as `attr(x, "cohort_year")`. * `cog_peer_compare()` now stamps a `cohort_year` column on its result (read from the peers tibble's attribute) and records `cohort_year` plus `cohort_govids` in provenance. When the caller supplies a bare character vector instead of a `cog_find_peers()` result, `cohort_year` is `NA`. ## Rollups exclude govs missing population * `cog_geographic_rollup(per_capita = TRUE)` drops rows whose government has `pop_source == "unavailable"` and records the dropped govids in `provenance$rollup$excluded_govids`. This excludes special districts (type 4) and school districts (type 5) from per-capita rollups by design. ## New: vignette and provenance metadata * New vignette `population-denominators` covers the four population sources, the type-4/5 coverage gap, the popyear quirk, and how to build moving-window peer cohorts manually. * Provenance gains `transformations$per_capita$popyear_range` and `pop_source_counts`. `cog_explain()` renders both. ## New features * `cog_gov_search()` gains a **basket mode**: passing vector `name` / `state` / `type` arguments resolves multiple place names in one call and returns a tibble of canonical rows in input order, ready to pipe into `cog_spending()` / `cog_revenue()`. Per-row resolution follows an exact-then-substring matching algorithm with deterministic disambiguation; ambiguous and missing entries are surfaced via a sidecar audit tibble plus a single console summary message. * New exports `cog_basket_resolution()` and `cog_basket_unresolved()` expose the basket sidecar for iterative query refinement. ## Breaking changes * The first formal of `cog_gov_search()` was renamed from `pattern` to `name`. All existing call sites in `cog_explorer/` and the package itself use positional first-arg, so this rename is non-breaking in practice. Callers that pass `pattern = ...` by name must update to `name = ...`.