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Research team workspace

Decide GYC’s IE measurement approach

This site is for the research team: review what we ingested, stress-test the A–F approach and 19 draft indicators, vote keep/revise/drop, assemble the with theory/method options in brackets, then leave with a concrete build plan — not another unfinished composite index.

Cross-platform research flow. Public story starts on Foresight Research → signals on the Intelligence Platform → partner narrative on GYC AI Labs · Research → this workbench for scorecard, workshop evidence, and the (theory/method options in brackets). Deep link anytime: #paper or ?tab=paper.

Layers A–F

Fairness planes

Indicators

Paper records

Extractions done

P0–P2

Ingest closed

Question this workspace answers: Do we like the synthesis / analysis-machine approach (A–F + scorecard + tools + signals), or do we need more library work / different architecture / different indicators before locking v2.0?

Working definition. Fairness in how power, resources, risks, and opportunities are distributed between living age cohorts and between present and future generations, such that younger and unborn people can meet their needs, exercise agency, and inherit ecological and institutional conditions no worse than those enjoyed by decision-makers today.

Four fairness planes (do not collapse children into youth)

Plane 1 · Children

Child equity (~0–17)

Surviving, developing, protected, heard (Lundy). Primary peer: UNICEF Innocenti Report Cards. Scorecard pack C1–C6.

Plane 2 · Youth

Youth equity (~15–29)

Present young people vs adults — outcomes, agency, material entry. YPI · GYPI · JRC.

Plane 3 · Future gens

Future-generations equity

Living people vs unborn — institutions, climate stocks, long-term duties.

Plane 4 · Longitudinal

Parent→child mobility

Whether conditions improve or erode across generations. GDIM · HCI.

Strategic takeaway

The field is rich but siloed. No external system owns the full A–F stack.

GYC owns synthesis + foresight signals + influence metrics — not another global rank competing with YPI, Portugal IJI, or IF.

How platform uses it

Object	Use
Signals	Tag A–F; flag layer imbalance
Themes	Structure by which layers move
Countries	Scorecard + E inventory + I1–I7
Accountability	DFG / EU pledges vs layers

How we read a country (demo)

For any country, analysts do not invent one score. They judge whether each layer is getting better, stuck, or worse — then look for mismatches (one layer up while another is down).

Try it: pick a real or imaginary country. For each layer, click the direction of travel. The box below explains what that combination usually means.

Improving = better for youth / FG Stuck = little change Worsening = eroding Don’t know yet

Country (optional label)

Evidence programme

What we ingested — and what it proved

Landscape-scan programme (P0 → P2) is closed. The library has primary citations for layers A–F, fiscal GA, private transfers, mobility, IA process quality, and planetary-adjusted development. Use this page to judge: enough to design, or more ingest first?

Strategic takeaway (still holds): field is rich but siloed. GYC owns synthesis + foresight signals, not the 15th composite index. No second-wave hit overturned A–F.

Ingest timeline

Original library + SOIF 2025 · extractions 01–14

YPI, JRC, EU Strategy, Portugal IJI, GYPI, IF, SOIF 2020/21 + 2025 Prism, Vanhuysse, Galasso, GCB, Naides…

Gap tools + landscape · 15–18

Influence I1–I7 · climate equity overlay · Layer E inventory · global landscape scan (white space + queue).

P0 method spine · 19–22

OECD Fit for All Generations · EC generational accounting (IBG/AGK) · NZ LSF · Wales WFG indicators.

P1 peers · 23–27

Generation Squeeze · NextGen Barometer · IF UK · Tremmel/FRFG · OECD Trust 2024.

P2 depth · 28–32

NTA · HCI+GDIM · ZOE IA future-fitness · RF Intergenerational Audit · UNDP PHDI.

Second-wave scan (not fully extracted) · N1–N14

Bertelsmann SJI · AU IGR/MWM · IG Commission · DFG Handbook · UNICEF RC · local IA toolkits · EU IGF Index watch.

Product work (not ingest)

Indicator lock · country pilots · optional public layer cards · better-indicator R&D.

What each P2 source unlocked

#	Source	Used for GYC	Layer
28	NTA (Lee–Mason / UN)	Lifecycle deficit; public + private transfers; demographic dividends	D
29	World Bank HCI + GDIM	Next-worker productivity stock; parent→child education mobility	A L
30	ZOE IA future-fitness	Long-term · pillar balance · crisis · capacity; min horizon ≥10y; MCDA	E
31	RF Intergenerational Audit	Co-residence, gifts, childcare, adult care, inheritance	C D
32	UNDP PHDI	HDI × planetary pressures; explicit IG inequality motivation	D

Coverage by layer (honest)

Strong — YPI, Wales, NZ, UNICEF (optional child). Ready to fill in OECD/EU.

Structure strong, influence thin — GYPI global; I1–I7 is method, not a global dataset.

Strong in EU/OECD — JRC housing, NEET, poverty. Weaker outside high-income stats systems.

Method rich, fill uneven — GA/NTA/debt-child/GCB/PHDI/RF. Few countries have full private-transfer series.

Template ready, multi-country empty — SOIF/Wales/ZOE/OECD. Inventory is analyst work, not a download.

Sensors available — JRC fairness, OECD Trust. Not substitutes for stocks or rights.

Is more ingest needed?

Argument: enough to design

Primary citations exist for every layer A–F
White-space methods closed (influence, climate overlay, E inventory)
Second-wave hits refine citations, not architecture
Remaining uncertainty is fill rate → only pilots resolve that

Argument: more ingest first

Bertelsmann SJI packaging for donor materials
Australia IGR as Anglosphere fiscal narrative peer
UNICEF RC if child mission is co-equal with youth
DFG Handbook if FG implementation is the lead product

Children (v1.2): UNICEF RC is required for any child-inclusive pilot (C1–C5). Formal paper ingest of RC19/20 can run in parallel with the first fill — do not pilot children on YPI alone.

Meta-analysis default: lock architecture on 01–32 (E1); UNICEF RC is the only P3a item on the critical path for child pilots; SJI / AU IGR / DFG Handbook remain deliverable-driven. Optional P3a in parallel with pilots — do not delay indicator decisions for completeness FOMO. See and full list under Library.

Architecture

Six-layer stack

Click a layer to expand method sources, example indicators, and reading rules. Longitudinal mobility sits beside the stack as plane 3 — not a seventh layer. Ask: does this stack map how your team thinks about IE?

Longitudinal

Parent→child equity module

GDIM absolute + relative education mobility; HCI as next-worker human capital stock. Keep separate from living age-group IE scores.

Select a layer on the left to inspect questions, sources, and indicators.

Draft metrics catalogue

Scorecard — quantitative v1.2 (19 + C1–C6)

Full indicator set (including child outcomes). UNICEF RC for under-18 outcome rows. Filter by layer. Fillability = how often public data exists for a typical high-income / EU country. Vote on each row under .

#	Layer	Indicator	Primary metric (quantitative)	Unit / polarity	Source	Fill

Reading rules

Same-age cohort where possible (JRC) · component vigilance (Galasso) · change over level for composites · growth quality (WISER) · barriers not apathy (GYPI/Naides) · polarity hygiene (IF) · perceptions as sensors only · carbon budget + justice overlay · Layer E via Prism inventory.

Optional depth rows (not core 19)

Private transfers / inheritance — RF, NTA

Generational accounting IBG/AGK — EC GA, AU IGR

GDIM mobility + HCI stock — World Bank

Child well-being module — UNICEF RC, OECD CWB

IA future-fitness — ZOE four challenges

IG balance confidence — OECD Trust 2024

Team exercise

Pick indicators — formula · data · vote

Work one signal at a time. 1 · Choose a thematic area → 2 · Pick a signal → 3 · Math, open data, sources & vote. Votes still cover the full scorecard and feed the Build plan.

Keep

Revise

Depth only

Drop

Not voted

1 Themes 2 Signals 3 Workbench

Copy into research notes / Build plan

How to build a better indicator (when you pick Revise): (1) Fairness plane & layer · (2) Generation unit · (3) Polarity · (4) Public series or method-only · (5) One-line so-what · (6) Pilot fill on 1 country before promoting to core.

Interactive checklists

Analyst tools

Practice the three operational add-ons: influence I1–I7, SOIF unfairness tests, and a mini Layer E inventory. Scores stay in this browser (localStorage).

Influence I1–I7 B / #19

Score the main youth or FG channel: 0 absent · 1 partial · 2 present

Mean score

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SOIF five unfairness tests E

Run on a live policy (housing, pensions, climate…). Pass / Fail / Unknown.

Policy under test

Layer E mini-inventory Prism snapshot

Absent / Weak / Functional / Strong — full template lives in memo 17.

Design rules

28 design principles

Distilled from the measurement library. These are reading rules, not extra indicators. Click a source chip for a short “what this paper does” note and a link to the original.

Scientific draft · interactive choices

Paper draft — options in brackets

You are here in the research flow: Foresight hub → Intelligence Platform → AI Labs Research → this workbench → Paper draft → Decide ballot → Pilot. Assemble the working scientific paper by choosing theoretical and methodological options. Yellow brackets = live choice; each option lists the trade-off. Share this step: #paper. Long-form: 51-scientific-paper-draft-ie-measurement.md.

How partners reach this step. Public programme story: Foresight Research · Built with AI Labs · Partner surface: AI Labs #research · Direct paper options: #paper (production: ie-framework-production…/#paper).

Copy into co-author notes / Methods decision log

Country pilot · v1.2

Pilot brief — children + youth + FG

Fixed template for Wales/UK · Portugal · Italy (or your set). Fill scorecard cells, RAG layers, mismatches, and so-what. Save draft locally or Submit decisions on production so admin can see completion notes.

Success bar: ≥70% always-fill rows sourced or marked gap · ≥1 mismatch in so-what · children and youth both named · UNICEF RC (or equivalent) for C1–C5.

S2 · Safe-and-just dual reading (binding). Every pilot must report ≥1 social-floor cell (A/C: e.g. #2, #3, #10–12, C2, C5) and ≥1 ecological-ceiling cell (#4 and/or #15 with climate dual sentence). Social gains that ignore the planetary ceiling (or the reverse) fail the IE brief.

S2 dual-reading checklist

Social floor filled — at least one of #2, #3, #10–12, C2, C5 (value + year + URL or gap) Ecological ceiling filled — #4 and/or #15 (value + year + URL or gap) #15 justice sentence — if climate filled: physical stock + equity overlay (memo 16) S2 notes (which cells used)

Pilot header

Country / system

Analyst

UNICEF RC edition

Date

1. Layer RAG

Direction of travel for this country (same idea as Overview demo, with A split).

2. Under-18 indicators C1–C6

#	Indicator	Value / note	Year	Source URL	Confidence

C1–C5 use UNICEF RC or documented equivalent

3. Mismatches

4. So what (must name children, youth, FG)

1. Finding (child) 2. Finding (youth) 3. Finding (FG / stocks / process) 4. Watch next 5. Advocacy ask (one sentence)

Copy into notes or paste into admin submission notes

Full markdown template: 34-pilot-brief-template.md. Production: submit via top bar after saving draft.

Open data · pilot set WLD · EU · PRT · ITA · GBR

Data availability & progress

Same navigation as Pick indicators: theme → signal → chart & interpretation. Real open-data values; gap means method-only or no ready public table.

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Filled

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Partial

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Gap

1 Themes 2 Signals 3 Data chart

S2 dual-reading: pick one social-floor theme (A/C/child material) and one ecological-ceiling signal (#4 or #15).

Sources: memos 48a–f · data-snapshots/data-progress.json

From SES theory · not yet core

SES-derived indicator candidates

These candidates come from the socioecological systems pack (Ostrom, Folke, planetary boundaries, Raworth, IPCC, Weiss — library extracts 37–46). They are not part of the 25-cell core until the research team votes them in. Blue chips on math modals already cite the theory; this tab proposes new cells or rules the core may still miss.

How to use. Prefer depth or merge into existing #16/#17/#15/#19 coding before adding permanent rows. S2 (safe-and-just dual reading) is recommended as a pilot rule rather than a 26th indicator.

Candidates

Merge-first

Rule (S2)

Already covered by core (do not duplicate): GCB remaining budget (#15), debt-per-child (#14), influence I1–I7 (#19/C6), FG body + IA (#16–17), PM2.5 (#4), child pack C1–C5. SES theory deepens interpretation and optional depth rows, not a second scorecard.

Evidence base

Library & second-wave queue

Closed ingest through extraction 32. Second-wave hits refine product choice; they do not overturn A–F. Context: see Ingest tab.

Decide GYC’s IE measurement approach

Four fairness planes (do not collapse children into youth)

Child equity (~0–17)

Youth equity (~15–29)

Future-generations equity

Parent→child mobility

Strategic takeaway

How platform uses it

How we read a country (demo)

What we ingested — and what it proved

Ingest timeline

Original library + SOIF 2025 · extractions 01–14

Gap tools + landscape · 15–18

P0 method spine · 19–22

P1 peers · 23–27

P2 depth · 28–32

Second-wave scan (not fully extracted) · N1–N14

Product work (not ingest)

What each P2 source unlocked

Coverage by layer (honest)

Is more ingest needed?

Six-layer stack

Parent→child equity module

Scorecard — quantitative v1.2 (19 + C1–C6)

Reading rules

Optional depth rows (not core 19)

Pick indicators — formula · data · vote

Signals

Signal

Analyst tools

Influence I1–I7 B / #19

SOIF five unfairness tests E

Layer E mini-inventory Prism snapshot

28 design principles

Paper draft — options in brackets

Do we like this approach — or is more needed?

Overall verdict

V Approach status

Architecture options

Detailed ballot

A Architecture

B Core product

C Scorecard size

D Non-negotiables

E Library deepening before lock

F First pilots

Pilot brief — children + youth + FG

S2 dual-reading checklist

Pilot header

1. Layer RAG

2. Under-18 indicators C1–C6

3. Mismatches

4. So what (must name children, youth, FG)

Build plan — better indicators & pilots

Data availability & progress

Signals

Signal data

SES-derived indicator candidates

Library & second-wave queue