{
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "status": "official",
  "title": "Six-Year-Old Test Metric Registry",
  "principle": "The AI researches. The code measures.",
  "scoring": {
    "overallLabel": "Measured Enabling Substrate",
    "warning": "This is not an end-to-end global capability score.",
    "dimensionWeights": {
      "digital_access": 0.25,
      "language_and_understanding": 0.15,
      "learning_and_knowledge": 0.2,
      "economic_and_physical_capability": 0.25,
      "institutional_bridging": 0.15
    },
    "rounding": "nearest_integer",
    "confidenceAffectsScore": false,
    "unknownCriticalDimensionsForceFail": true,
    "criticalUnscoredDimensions": [
      "practical_pathway_quality",
      "safety_and_rights",
      "agency_and_participation"
    ],
    "passRuleStatus": "official_v1",
    "passRule": {
      "allScoredDimensionsAtLeast": 80,
      "allCriticalDimensionsScored": true,
      "safeChildAppropriateAiGate": "pass"
    },
    "proxyDimensionsMayContributeToCurrentIndex": true,
    "proxyDimensionsMaySatisfyOfficialPass": false
  },
  "dimensions": [
    {
      "id": "digital_access",
      "label": "Digital access",
      "description": "Can a child reach the digital layer needed to ask, learn and communicate?",
      "scoreMethod": "mean_of_scored_metrics",
      "metrics": [
        {
          "id": "internet_use_global",
          "label": "Global internet use",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "global population",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "International Telecommunication Union"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 18
        },
        {
          "id": "internet_use_rural",
          "label": "Rural internet use",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "global rural population",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "International Telecommunication Union"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 18
        },
        {
          "id": "mobile_phone_ownership_10_plus",
          "label": "Mobile phone ownership",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "people aged 10 years and older",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "International Telecommunication Union"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 18
        },
        {
          "id": "mobile_broadband_coverage",
          "label": "Mobile broadband network coverage",
          "role": "supporting",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "global population",
          "normalisation": "not_scored",
          "preferredSources": [
            "International Telecommunication Union"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 18,
          "caveat": "Coverage does not prove device access, affordability, skills or actual use."
        },
        {
          "id": "mobile_broadband_affordable_economies",
          "label": "Economies meeting the mobile-broadband affordability target",
          "role": "supporting",
          "unit": "percent_of_economies",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "economies with available price data",
          "normalisation": "not_scored",
          "preferredSources": [
            "International Telecommunication Union"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 18,
          "caveat": "The denominator is economies, not people."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "language_and_understanding",
      "label": "Language and understanding",
      "description": "Can the child learn and act in a language they understand?",
      "scoreMethod": "mean_of_scored_metrics",
      "metrics": [
        {
          "id": "education_language_alignment",
          "label": "Estimated access to education in a language understood",
          "role": "scored_proxy",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "global learners/population estimate",
          "normalisation": "100_minus_reported_exclusion_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "UNESCO"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "when_updated",
          "staleAfterMonths": 60,
          "caveat": "This is an education-language proxy, not a direct measure of AI language quality."
        },
        {
          "id": "ai_language_quality",
          "label": "AI quality across languages",
          "role": "unscored",
          "unit": "benchmark",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "selected languages and tasks",
          "normalisation": "not_defined",
          "preferredSources": [
            "future controlled benchmark"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "scheduled",
          "staleAfterMonths": 6,
          "caveat": "Interface-language availability is not evidence of equal reasoning, speech or local-context quality."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "learning_and_knowledge",
      "label": "Learning and knowledge",
      "description": "Can the child understand, evaluate and build on the answer?",
      "scoreMethod": "mean_of_scored_metrics",
      "metrics": [
        {
          "id": "education_participation",
          "label": "Children and young people in education",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "children, adolescents and youth in the relevant school-age cohorts",
          "normalisation": "100_minus_out_of_school_rate",
          "preferredSources": [
            "UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 24
        },
        {
          "id": "primary_completion_on_time",
          "label": "On-time primary completion",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "primary completion cohort",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 24
        },
        {
          "id": "minimum_reading_proficiency_primary",
          "label": "Minimum reading proficiency at end of primary",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "students reaching end of primary",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "when_updated",
          "staleAfterMonths": 60,
          "caveat": "The latest global estimate has not been updated since COVID-19."
        },
        {
          "id": "minimum_math_proficiency_primary",
          "label": "Minimum mathematics proficiency at end of primary",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "students reaching end of primary",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "when_updated",
          "staleAfterMonths": 60,
          "caveat": "The latest global estimate has not been updated since COVID-19."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "economic_and_physical_capability",
      "label": "Economic and physical capability",
      "description": "Can the surrounding household and infrastructure support action?",
      "scoreMethod": "mean_of_scored_metrics",
      "metrics": [
        {
          "id": "electricity_access",
          "label": "Access to electricity",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "global population",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "Tracking SDG 7 custodian agencies",
            "World Bank"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 24
        },
        {
          "id": "clean_cooking_access",
          "label": "Access to clean cooking",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "global population",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent_or_inverse_reported_gap",
          "preferredSources": [
            "Tracking SDG 7 custodian agencies",
            "World Bank"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "annual",
          "staleAfterMonths": 24
        },
        {
          "id": "child_cash_benefit_coverage",
          "label": "Children receiving a child or family cash benefit",
          "role": "scored",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "children aged 0 to 18",
          "normalisation": "raw_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "International Labour Organization"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "when_updated",
          "staleAfterMonths": 36
        },
        {
          "id": "children_extreme_monetary_poverty",
          "label": "Children in extreme monetary poverty",
          "role": "supporting",
          "unit": "count",
          "direction": "lower_is_better",
          "population": "children",
          "normalisation": "not_scored_without_matching_denominator",
          "preferredSources": [
            "UNICEF"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "when_updated",
          "staleAfterMonths": 36,
          "caveat": "The count is displayed but not converted into a score without a source-matched denominator."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "institutional_bridging",
      "label": "Institutional bridging",
      "description": "Can a school, library, mentor, public service or civic institution carry the idea into the physical world?",
      "scoreMethod": "proxy_only",
      "metrics": [
        {
          "id": "schools_online",
          "label": "Schools connected to the internet",
          "role": "scored_proxy",
          "unit": "percent",
          "direction": "higher_is_better",
          "population": "world schools",
          "normalisation": "raw_approximate_percent",
          "preferredSources": [
            "Giga",
            "International Telecommunication Union",
            "UNICEF"
          ],
          "refreshCadence": "when_updated",
          "staleAfterMonths": 36,
          "caveat": "Connectivity is not a measure of mentoring, laboratories, workshops, safeguarding or civic support."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "practical_pathway_quality",
      "label": "Practical pathway quality",
      "description": "Can an AI turn an ambition into safe, local, age-appropriate and achievable steps?",
      "scoreMethod": "future_controlled_benchmark",
      "metrics": [],
      "status": "unknown_critical"
    },
    {
      "id": "safety_and_rights",
      "label": "Safety and rights",
      "description": "Can the child explore without exploitation, privacy loss, discrimination or dangerous guidance?",
      "scoreMethod": "future_implementation_index",
      "metrics": [],
      "status": "unknown_critical"
    },
    {
      "id": "agency_and_participation",
      "label": "Agency and participation",
      "description": "Can the child create, choose, question and influence outcomes rather than only consume an answer?",
      "scoreMethod": "future_global_indicator_or_benchmark",
      "metrics": [],
      "status": "unknown_critical"
    }
  ],
  "approvedSourceFamilies": [
    "International Telecommunication Union",
    "UNESCO",
    "UNICEF",
    "International Labour Organization",
    "World Bank",
    "World Health Organization",
    "UNDP",
    "official AI provider documentation",
    "peer-reviewed primary research where no public statistical authority exists"
  ],
  "runCounting": {
    "initialOfficialRun": 1,
    "minimumBoundaryDays": 90,
    "incrementRule": "Increment totalRuns exactly once when a new eligible research result is validated and approved as the safe published result."
  },
  "rejectedPractices": [
    "Treating network coverage as equivalent to meaningful access",
    "Combining differently defined populations into a fake cohort funnel",
    "Converting missing data to zero, fifty or an inferred value",
    "Allowing the research model to alter metric definitions, weights or scores",
    "Using publication date as though it were the observation date",
    "Scoring a raw count without a source-matched denominator"
  ]
}