GurjasEvidence & Policy Analytics
DOI-backed benchmark · Methodology preview

AUCR DPI–Inclusion Benchmark

A governed framework for examining how Indian states and union territories convert digital-public-infrastructure and financial-access conditions into use, capability and resilience outcomes.

Current status

Method registered; comparative results withheld

The deposited dataset, codebook and reproducible pipeline are registered under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20860992. Gurjas will not publish a public ranking until the exact release has been independently reproduced and every transformation has been reconciled.

Privacy boundary

Aggregate open data only

This product accepts no private institutional, respondent-level or client research data. Its public releases must be reproducible from deposited aggregate inputs.

Benchmark design

Four disclosed dimensions

The framework separates access from the outcomes that access may support, without assuming that access alone produces them.

Access

Availability and reach of relevant financial and digital infrastructure indicators in the deposited release.

Use

Observed adoption or transaction behaviour represented by the source variables.

Capability

Indicators describing the ability to use access effectively, subject to the deposited definitions.

Resilience

Indicators connected to the capacity to absorb or respond to financial shocks, without implying causality.

Release gate

What must happen before scores appear

  1. Reproduce the deposited release from its codebook and pipeline.
  2. Reconcile row coverage, transformations, missingness and outputs against the DOI record.
  3. Publish a source-and-transformation ledger and versioned methodology.
  4. Disclose uncertainty, sensitivity and material limitations.
  5. Complete human review before any comparative ordering is released.
Decision boundary

What the benchmark cannot establish

It cannot certify institutional quality, prove causality, demonstrate that a policy caused observed outcomes, determine eligibility or predict future performance. Any later comparative result will remain specific to the deposited inputs, disclosed transformations and release date.

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