# Madison walkthrough audit -- findings F-020 and F-023. Tracked as uscogdata#13. # See docs/walkthroughs/FINDINGS.md in cog_explorer. # # The owner's settled design (2026-07-28): a `coverage` argument on # cog_geographic_rollup(), cog_find_peers()/cog_peer_compare() and their # cog-api equivalents -- # "all" every unit that reported that year (today's behaviour, DEFAULT) # "census" census years only (years ending 2 or 7) # "consistent" only units reporting in every requested year (balanced panel) # -- PLUS always-on coverage metadata on every result regardless of mode: # n_units_reporting, n_units_expected, is_census_year. # # Motivating principle: using these verbs correctly must not require the user to # know that the Census of Governments is a complete census only in years ending # in 2 and 7. # # The helper below accepts that metadata either as columns on the returned # tibble or as a per-year table in provenance$coverage -- the design fixes the # three field names and that they reach the caller, not the container. wt_coverage <- function(x) { prov <- attr(x, "provenance") cov <- prov$coverage if (is.null(cov)) { needed <- c("year", "n_units_reporting", "n_units_expected", "is_census_year") expect_true(all(needed %in% names(x))) cov <- unique(x[, needed]) } cov[order(cov$year), ] } test_that("multi-government aggregates disclose reporting coverage on every result", { testthat::skip("Blocked on uscogdata#13 (findings F-020, F-023)") # -- F-020: geographic rollups ------------------------------------------- # Wisconsin's city/village universe is 608 governments. On the bundled # fixture, FY2012 (a census year) has 597 of them reporting while FY2019 and # FY2020 (sample years) have 112 and 114 -- an 18%-98% swing that today's # return value says nothing about. Counts cross-checked against the raw # corpus, not through cog_geographic_rollup(), which is under test. wi <- cog_gov_search(name = NULL, state = "WI", type = "city") expect_equal(nrow(wi), 608L) roll <- cog_geographic_rollup(govids = list(city = wi$canonical_govid), category = NULL, years = c(2011L, 2012L, 2019L, 2020L)) cov <- wt_coverage(roll) expect_equal(cov$n_units_expected, rep(608L, 4L)) expect_equal(cov$n_units_reporting, c(152L, 597L, 112L, 114L)) expect_equal(cov$is_census_year, c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)) raw_2012 <- wt_raw_query(paste0( "SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT canonical_govid) n FROM read_parquet('", wt_corpus_glob(), "') ", "WHERE type = 2 AND fips_state = 55 AND year = 2012 ", "AND LEFT(item_code, 1) IN ('E','F','G') AND NOT is_aggregate")) expect_equal(cov$n_units_reporting[cov$year == 2012], as.integer(raw_2012$n[[1]])) # -- F-023: peer cohorts -------------------------------------------------- # CHILTON CITY, WI (ACS population 4,017): a 15-peer cohort fixed at FY2012 # reports 15 of 15 in FY2012 and only 3 of 15 in FY2019 and FY2020. Nothing # in cog_peer_compare()'s return distinguishes those years today. chilton <- "552015177095" peers <- cog_find_peers(chilton, year = 2012L, max_peers = 15L) expect_equal(nrow(peers), 15L) cmp <- cog_peer_compare(target_govid = chilton, peers = peers, category = NULL, years = c(2012L, 2019L, 2020L), per_capita = TRUE) cov_peers <- wt_coverage(cmp) expect_equal(cov_peers$n_units_expected, rep(15L, 3L)) expect_equal(cov_peers$n_units_reporting, c(15L, 3L, 3L)) expect_equal(cov_peers$is_census_year, c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)) # -- the three coverage modes -------------------------------------------- expect_equal(attr(cog_peer_compare(target_govid = chilton, peers = peers, category = NULL, years = c(2012L, 2019L, 2020L), per_capita = TRUE), "provenance")$coverage_mode, "all") # unchanged default consistent <- cog_peer_compare(target_govid = chilton, peers = peers, category = NULL, years = c(2012L, 2019L, 2020L), per_capita = TRUE, coverage = "consistent") n_by_year <- tapply(consistent$canonical_govid[consistent$role == "peer"], consistent$year[consistent$role == "peer"], function(g) length(unique(g))) expect_equal(unname(as.integer(n_by_year)), c(3L, 3L, 3L)) # balanced panel census_only <- cog_geographic_rollup(govids = list(city = wi$canonical_govid), category = NULL, years = c(2011L, 2012L, 2019L, 2020L), coverage = "census") expect_equal(sort(unique(census_only$year)), 2012) })