{
  "display_rule": "registered derived rationals: three decimals, nearest, half away from zero; do not infer source accuracy from display",
  "exact_numeric_encoding": "reduced rational strings where applicable; source indices/counts are not rounded before comparison",
  "limitations": [
    "National offer-day snapshot, not eventual placement",
    "No offer can include an offered list of available schools rather than a specified place",
    "Applications attributed to home/resident authority; national population here",
    "Different annual cohorts; no same-child or causal interpretation",
    "Non-applicant offers excluded from applicant rate denominators",
    "2014 suppression-regime data excluded; old count discrepancies not repaired",
    "No personal admission probability or legal compliance conclusion"
  ],
  "method_version": "schools-experimental-2",
  "source_row_references": "line numbers include header; H6 workbook cell/date lineage in complete result",
  "source_units": "applicant counts; derived percentage and percentage-point change"
}