{"aggregation":"Overlapping source universes. Do not sum populations or counts into a combined coverage total.","fields":{"acs_boundary_vintage":"2024 native ACS geography, independently of classification enrichment vintage. Null when the native observation is absent.","acs_period":"2020-2024 ACS five-year collection period, not an annual estimate. Null when the native observation is absent.","acs_population":"ACS B01003_001E, 2020-2024 five-year population estimate, persons; null is typed by acs_population_status.","acs_population_moe":"ACS B01003_001M, 2020-2024 90% margin of error, persons; retain null and controlled-estimate status without inventing a numeric zero.","acs_population_moe_status":"Native published/missingness status. Published zero and controlled_estimate_zero_sampling_error are distinct.","acs_population_status":"published, a native typed missingness reason, or no_native_observation. Zero is a published value.","annual_boundary_vintage":"2025 PEP native geography. Null when the native observation is absent.","annual_link_status":"Identity continuity/link evidence only; never coextensiveness or permission to transfer measurements.","annual_native_key":"Opaque native PEP program, vintage, summary level and exact native GEOID, or null.","annual_population":"PEP Vintage 2025 POPESTIMATE2025, July 1, 2025 population, persons; no ACS substitution.","annual_population_status":"published or no_native_observation; no replacement with an ACS estimate.","annual_reference_date":"2025-07-01 PEP population reference date. Null when the native observation is absent.","classification_source":"Source used for the native type/status; never a claim of boundary equivalence.","classification_vintage":"Vintage of identity/type classification, separate from observation geography. ACS place classification uses authenticated 2024 Gazetteer LSAD and FUNCSTAT. NAME corroborates continuity links. Native annual-only records use 2025 sources.","comparison_blocked_reason":"Null when no review hold applies; otherwise all comparison views and ranks are blocked for this record.","comparison_review_holds":"Native-key evidence and reason for comparison review holds; records and source values remain browsable.","county_name":"Native county context when available. For annual-only 061, use PEP 050 when available, otherwise the exact ACS county key. observations.annual.county_context retains source program, native key and its own boundary vintage. For places, the display joins every native PEP 157 county name with semicolons; county_contexts preserves every county key and its vintage. No representative county is selected.","currentness":"source_vintage or historical_or_unresolved. Source-vintage existence is not a claim of present-day legal status.","discovery_reason":"Explicit inclusion or review disposition. C functional status remains accounted with consolidated-government eligibility review pending unless independently reviewed.","discovery_tier":"community, local_government, other_area or historical. Membership in discovery does not imply module/rank eligibility.","display_name":"Native ACS name for ACS records, or native PEP name for annual-only records. An exact tuple-keyed pinned repair may replace malformed PEP display text; source_row_key remains unchanged. Jurisdiction suffixes are removed for display only.","entity_id":"Opaque program/release/native-key identity; never join by display name.","extent":"Native geography, whole government, or partial statistical area; no new area or density claims.","full_geoid":"Native summary level + 0000US + geoid; PEP 061 differs from ACS 060.","funcstat":"Native Census functional-status code, or null where the consumed source does not publish it.","geography_type":"place, county_subdivision, consolidated_city or municipio; does not imply equivalence between native source representations.","geoid":"Native string identifier including leading zeroes; type/program disambiguation required.","history":"Optional independently pinned retired/renamed/unresolved history and evidence; no automatic successor or measure transfer.","lsad":"Reviewed native legal/statistical area description code, or null when unsupported by the consumed source.","observations":"community-observations.v1 native references. Each observation retains its release, boundary vintage and input label. Annual observations also retain source-specific display_name/type_label/lsad, exact tuple name_repair evidence and name_repaired flag, and all native 157 county_contexts. Raw source_row_key remains unmodified.","overlap_note":"Source-vintage overlap explanation for distinct native geographies. Municipal jurisdictions and statistical CDPs may describe overlapping territory. Do not sum their populations or count them as independent settlements or governments.","ranks":"Ranks order point estimates; differences are not statistically significant by rank alone and have not been significance-tested. Consult the ACS margins of error. The ACS cohort contains overlapping typed geographies, including municipalities and CDPs. Each native geography has its own rank position; counts are not unique settlements or communities. Descending competition ranks. Ties share rank; subsequent rank skips their count. State ranks mean jurisdiction ranks for Puerto Rico and DC.","route":"Native record path. Annual-only records have their own program/release/summary-level route.","state_abbr":"Two-character USPS jurisdiction abbreviation; Puerto Rico remains a separate territory comparison scope.","type_label":"Human-readable source type; native annual MCDs without LSAD evidence retain a generic Minor civil division label.","views":"Named source/period/extent cohorts with usable values. ACS compares overlapping typed native geographies, including municipalities and CDPs, not unique settlements or community totals. Puerto Rico ranks are separate from national comparisons."},"periods":{"acs":"2020-2024","annual":"2025-07-01"},"schema_version":"community-field-dictionary.v1","version":"2"}