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  "data": {
    "datasets": [
      {
        "id": "municipality",
        "title": "Identity, income classification, barangays and census figures",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/municipality.json",
        "records": 26,
        "readiness_tier": 1,
        "expected_refresh": "per-census",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Philippine Statistics Authority",
          "Bureau of Local Government Finance"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "fdp-filings",
        "title": "DILG Full Disclosure Policy filings (document index)",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/fdp-filings.json",
        "records": 156,
        "readiness_tier": 2,
        "expected_refresh": "quarterly",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Department of the Interior and Local Government"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "sre-financials",
        "title": "Statement of Receipts and Expenditures (extracted figures)",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/financials.json",
        "records": 14,
        "readiness_tier": 2,
        "expected_refresh": "quarterly",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Department of the Interior and Local Government"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "archived-documents",
        "title": "Documents archived from the municipality’s former website",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/documents.json",
        "records": 232,
        "readiness_tier": 2,
        "expected_refresh": "irregular",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Internet Archive (of calatagan.gov.ph)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "dpwh-projects",
        "title": "DPWH infrastructure projects in and near Calatagan",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/infrastructure.json",
        "records": 232,
        "readiness_tier": 2,
        "expected_refresh": "quarterly",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Department of Public Works and Highways (via BetterGov.ph)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "cmci",
        "title": "DTI Cities and Municipalities Competitiveness Index — Calatagan",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/competitiveness.json",
        "records": 10,
        "readiness_tier": 1,
        "expected_refresh": "annual",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Department of Trade and Industry"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "municipal-services",
        "title": "Municipal services by office (2022 Citizen’s Charters)",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/services.json",
        "records": 18,
        "readiness_tier": 2,
        "expected_refresh": "irregular",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Internet Archive (of calatagan.gov.ph)"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "holidays-2026",
        "title": "Holidays observed in Calatagan, 2026",
        "url": "https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/holidays.json",
        "records": 22,
        "readiness_tier": 1,
        "expected_refresh": "annual",
        "primary_sources": [
          "Office of the President"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "api_version": "1.0.0",
    "dataset": "index",
    "lgu": "Municipality of Calatagan",
    "psgc": "0401008000",
    "generated_at": "2026-10-02T09:05:20.844Z",
    "readiness_tiers": {
      "1": "Verified against a primary source; published as-is.",
      "2": "Published with a caveat that is shown to the reader alongside the figure.",
      "3": "Held internally; needs more verification. Never exported.",
      "4": "Withheld."
    },
    "withheld": [
      {
        "fact": "Land area",
        "reason": "PSA's own statistical table gives 10.50 km² and computes a 2024 density of 5,754 persons per km² from it. Comparable Batangas municipalities in that same table sit near 50 km², and a widely circulated figure for Calatagan is 101.50 km², which would make PSA's value a dropped digit. We cannot confirm which is right, so we publish neither."
      },
      {
        "fact": "Current elected officials",
        "reason": "Election results for May 2025 are available from a civic-tech derivative of COMELEC data, but results are not the same as present incumbency, and no COMELEC or DILG primary source has been read. Scheduled for a later phase."
      },
      {
        "fact": "Calatagan’s own poverty incidence",
        "reason": "PSA publishes municipal poverty (small-area estimates) only on psa.gov.ph, which this project’s tools cannot read. PSA OpenSTAT’s tables stop at the province, so the Statistics page shows Batangas’s figures, labelled as the province’s, and not a figure for Calatagan."
      },
      {
        "fact": "Financial figures from Full Disclosure Policy filings other than the Statement of Receipts and Expenditures",
        "reason": "The Finances page publishes figures from the 14 quarterly Statements of Receipts and Expenditures, each traced to its spreadsheet cell and reconciled. The other 13 forms (142 filings, including the Statement of Cash Flow, Statement of Indebtedness, 20% development fund, disaster fund, trust fund and special education fund utilization reports, bid results and the annual budget report) are only indexed on the transparency section with links to each DILG original. No amount from them has been extracted or restated, because no extraction of those forms has been built or reviewed for accuracy."
      },
      {
        "fact": "COA audit figures and findings, and planning-document facts",
        "reason": "COA is unreachable to this project’s tooling, and the planning documents circulate only on third-party document hosts with no government-hosted copy and no confirmed adoption status."
      }
    ],
    "notes": [
      "Every dataset carries its own provenance in its `meta.provenance` block: sources, what period the data describes, when a human last checked it, and how well evidenced it is.",
      "`as_of` (the period the data describes) and `last_verified` (when someone checked) are deliberately different fields.",
      "There is no global staleness rule. A census two years past its reference date is still the latest official release; `status` says what a record is.",
      "Only tier 1 and tier 2 datasets are exported. Tier 3 and 4 data stays out of public output entirely."
    ],
    "license": {
      "compilation": "CC BY 4.0 — applies to this compilation (selection, arrangement, identifiers, extraction and provenance metadata) by BetterCalatagan.",
      "source_documents": "NOT covered by the above. Cited government documents remain the works of their issuing agencies under Philippine law and are not relicensed here. Obtain them from the issuing agency and observe its terms.",
      "attribution": "BetterCalatagan (bettercalatagan.org)"
    },
    "disclaimer": "BetterCalatagan is an independent civic project. It is not the official website of the Municipality of Calatagan and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government agency."
  }
}