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Scorecard comparing PolicyEngine/Populace estimates against external analyses — instance 1: Urban Institute's State of the Safety Net

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Last GitHub push: Sep 11, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Take-up assumptions: compare PolicyEngine and UKMOD where they are comparable Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#130 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Forcing take-up ON zeroes housing_benefit_pensioners — the fullpart denominator is unusable until this is resolved Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#128 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Input-data basis as a surfaced claim attribute (people assume EUROMOD means SILC) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#119 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Reform-period-metric view: every source's score for one target in one place Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#118 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
History slimming runbook: 757 MB of dead scorecard.db blobs, execute at the repo-public flip (per #74) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#113 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Intern claim provenance: publications + reforms side tables (~20 MB of inline JSON duplication) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#112 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
UK review queue: 17 open PRs, suggested merge order, and what is blocked on whom Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#104 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Pensions: the Budget's most-reported measure is not expressible, and nothing validates the pensions PE-UK does model Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#98 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Childcare support (mode 1): entitlement take-up and Tax-Free Childcare, the population counterpart to #55's childcare scorings Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#89 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Universal Credit administrative caseload and element composition (mode 1): the largest UK benefit has no published caseload on the scorecard Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#87 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 24, 2026
policyengine.org/scorecard is a second, hand-fed Vercel project — script the dual-mount build or consolidate the rewrite Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#84 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
UK compute campaign, run 5: PE-UK static LSR counterparts to OBR's 19 supply-side scorings (#55 step 2–3) Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#80 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
UK compute campaign, run 4: produce the first populace-uk reform_validation.json (activates the #65 UK lane) Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#79 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
UK compute campaign, run 3: paired runs to size the OBR divergence axes (employee incidence, CY interpolation, announcement baselines) Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#78 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
UK compute campaign, run 2: reckoner full-population compute (24 expressible measures × 3 forecast years) Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#77 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
UK compute campaign, run 1: execute the mode-1 counterpart pipeline on the certified bundle Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#76 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Official-calculator oracles (mode 3): gov.uk and benefits-calculator household cases as a second UK oracle family Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#63 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
policyengine-uk reform-validation population: per-release regression history for the UK engine Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#62 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
HMT distributional analysis (mode 2, distributional): decile-impact counterparts to the Budget 'impact on households' tables Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#61 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
HMRC ready reckoner (mode 2): PE-UK counterparts to the direct effects of illustrative tax changes Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#60 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Decompose the OBR costings divergences: PE/OBR 1.40 on the PA/HRT freezes, 1.99 on the additional-rate cut Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#59 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Devolved administrations (modes 1+2): SFC costings, Scottish income tax outturn, Welsh rates — the UK analogue of the US state dimension Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#58 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
OBR published economic + behavioural effects of policy: the Scorecard entry point for PolicyEngine Macro members Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#55 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 17, 2026
OBR policy costings (mode 2): Policy Measures Database + EFO 3.17 → PE-UK static counterparts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#54 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
UKMOD/EUROMOD household cases via the JRC connector (mode 3) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#41 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
UK counterpart compute pipeline: managed policyengine-uk sims on the certified bundle Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#40 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
UK UC deductions: external scores staged (FRR, JRF floor, historical cap costings) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#21 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Tariff tracker claim family: harvest, registry, and the PE-machinery computability gate Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#17 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Consolidate the populace reform-validation registry into the scorecard (retiring cal-diag's External checks tab) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#15 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Baseline as a first-class attribute of every score Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#13 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Assumptions registry: catalog every source model's methodology for apples-to-apples comparison Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#10 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
App design: public scoreboard + mission control, four views Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#9 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Continuous operation + live tracking on the central app Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#7 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
External-scores catalog in Ledger (fill in advance of analysis) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#6 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Household-level oracles (mode 3: case diffs) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#5 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
UK adapters (mode 1) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#3 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Reform-score adapters (mode 2: deltas, not levels) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#4 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 1, 2026
US population-statistic adapters (mode 1) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#2 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Oracle harness doctrine: maximally parallel external comparisons, published Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-scorecard#1 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2026

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