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                "demographics of Vermont",
                "demographics of Ohio",
                "demographics of Pennsylvania",
                "demographics of Maryland",
                "demographics of Colorado",
                "demographics of Kansas",
                "demographics of Maine",
                "demographics of Michigan",
                "demographics of Missouri",
                "demographics of New Mexico",
                "demographics of New Hampshire",
                "demographics of West Virginia",
                "demographics of Wisconsin",
                "demographics of New Jersey",
                "demographics of Wyoming",
                "demographics of Indiana",
                "demographics of Idaho",
                "demographics of Connecticut",
                "demographics of Rhode Island",
                "demographics of Delaware",
                "demographics of Iowa",
                "demographics of Mississippi",
                "demographics of Montana",
                "demographics of Nebraska",
                "demographics of Nevada",
                "demographics of North Dakota",
                "demographics of Oregon",
                "demographics of Tennessee",
                "demographics of Washington",
                "demographics of New England",
                "demographics of Illinois",
                "demographics of New York",
                "demographics of California",
                "demographics of Florida",
                "demographics of Texas",
                "demographics of North Carolina",
                "demographics of Alaska",
                "demographics of Alabama",
                "demographics of Arizona",
                "demographics of Arkansas"
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                    "explain measurement categories",
                    "relay trends",
                    "route to state demographics"
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                    "Race and ethnicity categories",
                    "Immigration-driven growth",
                    "Regional variation"
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                    "National and state demographics from census and survey data",
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                ],
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                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "median age",
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                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "foreign-born share",
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                    }
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                    "race, ethnicity and ancestry",
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                    "religion",
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                        "relation": "is a kind of",
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                    },
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                        "target": "United States Census Bureau",
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                    },
                    {
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                    },
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                    "Stale figures",
                    "Misreading race and ethnicity categories",
                    "Politicised use of demographic projections",
                    "Undercounts of some groups"
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                "out_of_scope": [],
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                                "name": "Overview",
                                "description": "Overview.",
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                                        "id": "overview-finding",
                                        "name": "Overview",
                                        "description": "Overview.",
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                                                "text": "What are the size, growth and structure of the US population, from official sources?",
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                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
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                                        "name": "States",
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                                                "text": "How do states such as Vermont, Ohio, Colorado and Kansas differ demographically, with sources?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific state?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
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                        ]
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                                                "text": "How do the census, the ACS and vital statistics measure the population?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "categories",
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                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "categories-finding",
                                        "name": "Categories",
                                        "description": "Categories.",
                                        "questions": [
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                                                "text": "How are race, ethnicity and ancestry categorised, and how have the categories changed, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
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                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
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                                "id": "trends",
                                "name": "Trends",
                                "description": "Trends.",
                                "findings": [
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                                        "id": "trends-finding",
                                        "name": "Trends",
                                        "description": "Trends.",
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                                                "text": "What trends in ageing, immigration, fertility and diversity do the data show, with sources?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
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                                    }
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                            },
                            {
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                                "description": "Projections and debates.",
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                                        "id": "projections-finding",
                                        "name": "Projections",
                                        "description": "Projections.",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "What do projections say, and what debates surround their interpretation, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
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                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
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                        "rationale": "Context.",
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                                "description": "History.",
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                                        "questions": [
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                                                "text": "How has the US population changed since the first census of 1790?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the history of the US census?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
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                                    }
                                ]
                            },
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                                "id": "uses",
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                                "description": "Uses of demographic data.",
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                                        "id": "uses-finding",
                                        "name": "Uses",
                                        "description": "Uses.",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "How are demographic data used in apportionment, funding and planning?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits apportionment?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
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            "openQuestions": [
                "Should state demographics be separate entries?",
                "How should Census Bureau sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming state demographics; should they be split off?"
            ],
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                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
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            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a demographics of the United States, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe the demographics of the United States with official statistics from the Census Bureau and other agencies, explain measurement categories and their limits, relay trends with attribution, and route to entries for state demographics.",
            "characteristics": {
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                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
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                "read and interpreted"
            ],
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                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: demographics of Vermont, demographics of Ohio, demographics of Pennsylvania, demographics of Maryland, demographics of Colorado, demographics of Kansas, demographics of Maine, demographics of Michigan, demographics of Missouri, demographics of New Mexico, demographics of New Hampshire, demographics of West Virginia.",
                "59 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 39 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a demographics of the United States, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
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                "read it and act on what it says"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [],
            "relatedModels": [
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                    "relation": "covers",
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                        "demographics of Ohio",
                        "demographics of Pennsylvania",
                        "demographics of Maryland",
                        "demographics of Colorado",
                        "demographics of Kansas",
                        "demographics of Maine",
                        "demographics of Michigan",
                        "demographics of Missouri",
                        "demographics of New Mexico",
                        "demographics of New Hampshire",
                        "demographics of West Virginia"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 39 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 59 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
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                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one demographics of the United States from another, and a demographics of the United States from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
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                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
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                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
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                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
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                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
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                                "description": "Where a demographics of the United States sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
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                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a demographics of the United States from the things most often confused with it.",
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                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                        "description": "The states a demographics of the United States passes through and the events that move it between them.",
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                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
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                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a demographics of the United States between them.",
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                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a demographics of the United States, how often and by whom.",
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                                        "id": "observation-record",
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                                        "description": "How an observation of a demographics of the United States is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
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                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a demographics of the United States says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a demographics of the United States contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a demographics of the United States and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "subject-and-method",
                        "name": "Subject matter and method",
                        "description": "What demographics of the United States studies and how it establishes anything.",
                        "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "subject",
                                "name": "Subject matter",
                                "description": "The questions it takes as its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "subject-record",
                                        "name": "Questions and objects of study",
                                        "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "subject-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What questions and objects does demographics of the United States take as its own?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "subject-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "method",
                                "name": "Method and evidence",
                                "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "method-record",
                                        "name": "Methods and standards of evidence",
                                        "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "method-record-q01",
                                                "text": "By what methods does demographics of the United States establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "method-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "institutions-and-classification",
                        "name": "Institutions and classification",
                        "description": "Where demographics of the United States is practised and how catalogues place it.",
                        "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "institutions",
                                "name": "Institutional markers",
                                "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "institution-record",
                                        "name": "Bodies and venues",
                                        "description": "Where the field organises itself.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "institution-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark demographics of the United States as an established field?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "institution-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification",
                                "name": "Classification schemes",
                                "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "classification-record",
                                        "name": "Codes and their disagreements",
                                        "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "classification-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which classification schemes place demographics of the United States, under what codes?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "classification-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a demographics of the United States came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a demographics of the United States and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a demographics of the United States is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a demographics of the United States, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a demographics of the United States, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a demographics of the United States is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}