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them.","scope":{"in":["The criterion, context and time that determine which human beings are included","The number and composition of the people, with uncertainty and relevant internal differences","Relationships, interactions and any evidenced sense of belonging among those included","Shared circumstances, expressed needs and differences in how conditions affect members","Collective expression, representation and the limits of authority to act for members","Conditions for appropriate contact, participation and assistance"],"out":["An individual person's identity, biography or personal case record","An organisation's legal identity, governance structure, assets and operations","A household's domestic arrangements and shared household resources","A settlement or territory's geographic boundaries, infrastructure and administration","An event's programme, venue and operational lifecycle","A statistical dataset's schema, sampling implementation and processing 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the uncertainty?","id":"count-and-visibility-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"How was the count obtained, and which people might that method miss or count repeatedly?","id":"count-and-visibility-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"relevant-variation","name":"Relevant variation","description":"Captures internal differences that affect interpretation or action without treating subgroup labels as personal profiles.","findings":[{"id":"subgroups-and-distributions","name":"Subgroups and distributions","description":"Record evidenced, task-relevant variation, subgroup overlap and gaps that make a collective average inadequate.","questions":[{"text":"Which differences among these people would change the proposed action or its expected effects?","id":"subgroups-and-distributions-q01","kind":"action"},{"text":"What evidence describes those differences, including overlapping subgroups and people whose circumstances are unknown?","id":"subgroups-and-distributions-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"connections-and-belonging","name":"Connections and belonging","description":"Separates being described together from knowing, identifying with or coordinating with one another.","layers":[{"id":"relationships-and-interaction","name":"Relationships and interaction","description":"Describes actual connections among the people and the limits of those connections.","findings":[{"id":"evidenced-human-connections","name":"Evidenced human connections","description":"Record observed or reported relationships, interactions and dependencies, including disconnected subsets where relevant.","questions":[{"text":"What connects these people beyond their inclusion under the same description?","id":"evidenced-human-connections-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which observations or member accounts establish those connections, and which subsets do they 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ethnicity, religion or similar traits, while allowing consented measures that support stated inclusion needs.","Share data that identifies members of a group without consent or legal basis.","Speak for a community that has not asked it to."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing claims or statistics about a named community requires human review.","Any processing of data about a group's members requires human review."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Generalizations about groups are the material of prejudice and persecution.","Group data has been used to target minorities, so its collection carries risk."],"affectedParties":["Members of the group","Minority communities","People misrepresented by statistics"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns a group of people; each person answers for themselves, and representative bodies speak where mandated.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"oewn-00031563-n","type":"parent","note":"registry parent 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