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Agenda

What gets measured next

What is in each state

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Under way

StudyUnder way

Housing: what each institution measures when it speaks of housing in Portugal

Why

Three livro-razao rows publish housing as an indicator of an institutional framework, and one of them, the price index, is published with a value above the threshold the Commission itself publishes; no site row publishes today what the International Monetary Fund, the OECD or the European Semester say about Portuguese housing.

Criteria

  • Institutional frameworkProcedimento relativo aos Desequilíbrios Macroeconómicos, painel principal (Comissão Europeia)17,6source · EurostatReference value published by the Commission: 9% Where it is written https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-and-fiscal-governance/macroeconomic-imbalance-procedure/scoreboard_en read on 16.08.2026 nominal house price (1-year % change), with a threshold of 9%The published value is the row beside this note, with its seal. The threshold it is read against is the one the Commission publishes on the scoreboard page, and it sits in this criterion's own field, with the address, the date it was read and the sentence that says it.
  • Institutional frameworkPainel de Indicadores Sociais (Comissão Europeia)6,3source · EurostatThe engine's availability register marks tespm140 with framework 'SocialSB'. The engine's convergence analysis identifies this indicator as a trap, for this reason: the Commission itself warns it must be read alongside the tenure structure, and where owner-occupation is high this measure does not see those who never bought. That caveat is not yet on this project's pages, and it comes with the measure by tenure status. The European average of this indicator stopped being shown beside the Portuguese value on 23.09.2026, so the comparison with it is not made here.
  • Institutional frameworkProcedimento relativo aos Desequilíbrios Macroeconómicos, indicadores auxiliares (Comissão Europeia)749,7 (provisional data)source · EurostatResidential building permits, an auxiliary indicator of the same scoreboard.
  • Institutional frameworkFundo Monetário Internacional, consulta ao abrigo do Artigo IVNo rows: no livro-razao claim publishes today the Fund's assessment of Portuguese housing. The framework is recorded with no rows rather than omitted, because the absence is one of the gaps the study will fill.
  • Institutional frameworkOCDE, Estudo Económico de Portugal, Foundations for Growth and Competitiveness, How's LifeNo rows, for the same reason. It is from this framework that the favourable reading of Portuguese housing comes, the one the question sets against the others.
  • Institutional frameworkSemestre Europeu, relatório por país e recomendações específicasNo rows. Two livro-razao rows cite document SWD(2026) 222 in their `note` field, but to confirm a Eurostat value, not to publish what the Semester says.
  • Source calendarHouse Price Index, 2nd quarter of 2026 22.09.2026
  • Source calendarHouse prices statistics at local level, 2nd quarter of 2026 23.10.2026
  • Source calendarHouse rental statistics at local level, 2nd quarter of 2026 29.09.2026
  • Source calendarAlert Mechanism Report and Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure scoreboard, 2027 European Semester [a verificar] · a field not confirmed against the source, not a doubt about what is published the source publishes no date

Proposed by the engine on 12.08.2026Decided by the editorial direction on 15.08.2026Entered the record 16.08.2026Last change 18.08.2026

The question

When the institutions that assess Portugal disagree about housing, some naming it the country's gravest structural problem and one placing it among the best dimensions of Portuguese well-being, is that disagreement produced by what each indicator is defined to measure and whom it covers, or does it survive once the definitions are held constant?

The question is registered in English, word for word; the Portuguese is the Portuguese edition of that same question.

Pre-registration sealed on 18.08.2026

What changed

  1. 16.08.2026entrymoves to Next

    Record created on the day the agenda came into being. The question above is the one in the pre-registration, which was started today and has not been sealed: collection has not begun and the director has not read the question. Sealing before that reading would certify that the question preceded the evidence while what precedes the evidence can still change.

  2. 18.08.2026changestate unchanged: Next

    The director read the question on 2026-08-18 and the pre-registration was sealed. The question no longer changes without a recorded amendment; collection has not begun.

  3. 18.08.2026changeNext → Under way

    Collection began, with the institutional framework survey: the documents were fetched and pinned by sha256, and what each institution publishes about Portuguese housing is recorded in `content/10 Housing/Technical Source/SURVEY.md`, with the claims ledger beside it. The question sealed on 2026-08-18 did not change, and nothing in this entry amends it.

WatchUnder way

DGAL's 2025 municipal debt file

Why

DGAL publishes no calendar and the file appears without notice; the monthly watch is what exists in place of a date.

Criteria

Proposed by the engine on 10.08.2026Decided by the editorial direction on 18.08.2026Entered the record 16.08.2026Last change 18.08.2026

What changed

  1. 16.08.2026entrymoves to Under way

    The watch existed from 2026-08-10 but ran by hand and left no trace. It runs in the monthly agent from today, and it is today that it enters the agenda.

  2. 18.08.2026changestate unchanged: Under way

    The director read the watch and decided to keep it under way. The decision is recorded with its date; the state does not change.

WatchUnder way

The Município de Évora 2026 accounts

Why

They are the first accounts of the executive installed in 2025, and the two Évora studies wrote down the lines to check when they appear.

Criteria

Proposed by the engine on 10.08.2026Decided by the editorial direction on 18.08.2026Entered the record 16.08.2026Last change 18.08.2026

What changed

  1. 16.08.2026entrymoves to Under way

    Enters today, with the legal deadline read in the Diário da República and recorded in the source calendar.

  2. 18.08.2026changestate unchanged: Under way

    The director read the watch and decided to keep it under way. The decision is recorded with its date; the state does not change.

WatchUnder way

The year 2024 with no published accounts in Évora

Why

The year has no published dossier, and the reappearance of a 2024 page would be news in itself.

Criteria

Proposed by the engine on 10.08.2026Decided by the editorial direction on 18.08.2026Entered the record 16.08.2026Last change 18.08.2026

What changed

  1. 16.08.2026entrymoves to Under way

    Enters today. It is the only one of the three watches whose event has no deadline at all, legal or observed: it may never happen, and that too is a result.

  2. 18.08.2026changestate unchanged: Under way

    The director read the watch and decided to keep it under way. The decision is recorded with its date; the state does not change.

Next

Concluded

PageConcluded

Évora, the first município page type

Why

The site had a page for no municipality; Évora was the only one with enough verified material for one, and it is the page type the others will inherit.

Criteria

No criterion.

    Proposed by the engine on 15.08.2026Decided by the editorial direction on 15.08.2026Entered the record 16.08.2026Last change 16.08.2026

    What changed

    1. 16.08.2026entrymoves to Concluded

      Retrospective entry. The work was proposed, decided, built and published on 2026-08-15, before this agenda existed, and it is recorded on 2026-08-16, which is the day the agenda was created. It enters already concluded, and this paragraph is here so that the reader does not read the entry date as the date of the work. Sources for what was concluded: the site's DECISIONS.md §1.34, and the vault decision note, section 'As built, same day (afternoon)'. With no criterion of the four types: it came from a direction decision about what the site did not have, and not from an institutional framework, a calendar, a reader or a correction.

    Withdrawn

    None to date.

    The source calendar

    What the cited sources publish next.

    The calendar, in time

    2026-092026-102026-112026-122027-012027-022027-032027-0422.09.2026INE23.09.2026INE29.09.2026INE21.10.2026Eurostat23.10.2026INE30.10.2026INE04.11.2026INE01.12.2026 and 31.12.2026INE01.04.2027 and 30.04.2027Município de Évora

    Open each event22.09.202623.09.202629.09.202621.10.202623.10.202630.10.202604.11.202601.12.202601.04.2027

    With a date the source publishes

    • 22.09.2026INE

      House Price Index, 2nd quarter of 2026

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt read on 16.08.2026

      Índice de Preços da Habitação · 2.º Trimestre de 2026 · 22 de setembro de 2026

      Note The site row precos-da-habitacao-2025 publishes the Eurostat annual table (tipsho20), not this quarterly index. It is registered because it is the national measurement of the same object and because the housing study starts there.

    • 23.09.2026INE

      Excessive deficit procedure, 2nd notification of 2026

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt read on 16.08.2026

      Procedimento dos Défices Excessivos - 2ª Notificação · 2026 · 23 de setembro de 2026

      Note This is the national notification. The value the site publishes comes from the Eurostat table, which comes later: see eurostat-pde-notificacao-outubro-2026.

      Rows this concerns saldo-das-administracoes-publicas-2025

    • 29.09.2026INE

      House rental statistics at local level, 2nd quarter of 2026

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt read on 16.08.2026

      Estatísticas de Rendas da Habitação ao nível local · 2.º Trimestre de 2026 · 29 de setembro de 2026

      Note Municipality level. No site row uses it today.

    • 21.10.2026Eurostat

      Excessive deficit procedure notification: general government deficit and debt

      Where it is written https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-22042026-ap read on 16.08.2026

      Next release: 21 October 2026

      Note The release of 2026-04-22 says of itself: 'In this release, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, is providing government deficit and debt data for the years 2022-2025, based on figures reported by EU Member States in the first notification in 2026, for the application of the excessive deficit procedure (EDP).' The site row divida-publica-2025 publishes the annual table tipsgo10, on the Procedure's basis.

      Rows this concerns divida-publica-2025

    • 23.10.2026INE

      House prices statistics at local level, 2nd quarter of 2026

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt read on 16.08.2026

      Estatísticas de Preços da Habitação ao nível local · 2.º Trimestre de 2026 · 23 de outubro de 2026

      Note Municipality level. No site row uses it today.

    • 30.10.2026INE

      Enterprises in Portugal, 2025

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt read on 16.08.2026

      Empresas em Portugal · 2025 · 30 de outubro de 2026

      Note The four rows come from indicators 0013863, 0014047 and 0014063, which INE's own metainformation attributes to the enterprises' 'Sistema de contas integradas'. That metainformation, read on 2026-08-10 and kept in the engine, gives DataUltimaAtualizacao 2025-12-11 and last period 2024: the database and the Destaque do not necessarily move on the same day.

      Rows this concerns evora-concentracao-vab4-2024 · evora-empresas-2024 · evora-vab-empresarial-2024 · portugal-concentracao-vab4-2024

    • 04.11.2026INE

      Labour Force Survey, 3rd quarter of 2026

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt&DESTAQUESpagenumber=4 read on 23.09.2026

      Estatísticas do Emprego · 3.º Trimestre de 2026 · 04 de novembro de 2026

      Rows this concerns taxa-de-desemprego-2025 · taxa-de-emprego-2025

    • between 01.12.2026 and 31.12.2026INE

      Regional accounts, preliminary data for 2025

      Where it is written https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_calendarios&xlang=pt read on 16.08.2026

      Contas Regionais - Dados preliminares · 2025 · dezembro de 2026

      Note INE gives the month, not the day. No site row depends on this data: the GDP per capita rows the site publishes come from Eurostat's regional table, and the link to the Eurostat table was not read in the source.

    • between 01.04.2027 and 30.04.2027Município de Évora

      Município de Évora 2026 accounts, appreciation by the Assembleia Municipal

      Where it is written https://files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2018/08/15700/0410904147.pdf read on 16.08.2026

      Artigo 76.º, «Apreciação dos documentos de prestação de contas individuais e consolidadas», n.º 1: «Os documentos de prestação de contas individuais das autarquias locais, das entidades intermunicipais e das entidades associativas municipais são apreciados pelos seus órgãos deliberativos, reunidos em sessão ordinária durante o mês de abril do ano seguinte àquele a que respeitam.»

      What was observed The deadline is for the appreciation, not for publication. The municipality's own page dates each document it puts online: 2025 accounts on 21-05-2026, 2023 on 07-06-2024, 2022 on 12-05-2023, 2021 on 18-05-2022, 2020 on 03-08-2021. That the document appears weeks after the April session is our reading of these five cases (inference).

      Note The window is the one the law fixes. The text quoted is article 76 as it stands in the republication annexed to Lei n.º 51/2018, published in the Diário da República, 1st series, no. 157, pp. 4109 to 4147, and it is word for word the same as the 2013 original (Lei n.º 73/2013, 1st series, no. 169, pp. 5499 to 5519, also read today). Amendments after 2018 were not checked: the consolidated version on diariodarepublica.pt returns the 'JavaScript is required' shell to both curl and WebFetch, and the engine had already recorded it.

    With no date, because the source publishes none

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateComissão Europeia

      Joint Employment Report and Social Scoreboard, 2027 European Semester

      What was observed The Commission's news item on the 2026 Semester autumn package is dated 2025-11-25 and names among the package's documents the 'Proposal for a Joint Employment Report'. No Commission page read today announces the date of the next package. The autumn package is the observed vehicle, once (inference).

      Note The ten rows named are those the engine's availability register marks with framework 'SocialSB'.

      Rows this concerns abandono-escolar-precoce-2025 · competencias-digitais-2025 · criancas-em-creche-2025 · desemprego-de-longa-duracao-2025 · disparidade-de-emprego-entre-sexos-2025 · necessidades-medicas-nao-satisfeitas-2025 · racio-s80-s20-2025 · risco-de-pobreza-ou-exclusao-2025 · sobrecarga-do-custo-da-habitacao-2025 · taxa-de-emprego-2025

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateComissão Europeia

      Alert Mechanism Report and Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure scoreboard, 2027 European Semester

      What was observed The Commission's own Alert Mechanism Report page announces no date and no periodicity. It lists the editions with each one's date: 2026 Semester on 2025-11-25, 2025 Semester on 2024-12-18, 2024 Semester on 2023-11-21, 2023 Semester on 2022-11-22, 2022 Semester on 2021-11-24. Five editions in November or December, which is an observation about the past and not an announced date (inference).

      Note The thirteen rows named are those whose `note` field carries the Procedure's threshold, and they are the thirteen headline indicators. Thresholds live in documents and not in the data interface, which is why the engine's threshold check watches the scoreboard page and not a series. The scoreboard page, read today, does not say when it is updated; the threshold it publishes for the house price index sits in the housing item's criterion, in its own field.

      Rows this concerns custo-unitario-do-trabalho-2025 · desempenho-das-exportacoes-2025 · divida-das-empresas-2025 · divida-das-familias-2025 · divida-publica-2025 · fluxo-de-credito-as-empresas-2025 · fluxo-de-credito-as-familias-2025 · posicao-de-investimento-internacional-2025 · precos-da-habitacao-2025 · saldo-da-balanca-corrente-2025 · taxa-de-actividade-2025 · taxa-de-cambio-efectiva-real-2025 · taxa-de-desemprego-mip-2025

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateDireção-Geral das Autarquias Locais (DGAL)

      File 'Evolução endividamento total 2025' on the Portal Autárquico

      What was observed DGAL publishes no calendar. The debt evolution page, read today, lists eleven annual files (2014 to 2024) and puts a date on none of them; searching for 'calend' in the debt section and on the Portal Autárquico home page returns nothing, and the same search for 'endividamento' does find occurrences on both pages. What the source does write is each file's address, and that carries a dtestate parameter: 2025-12-18 on the 2024 file, 2024-11-14 on the 2023 file, 2024-04-11 on the 2022 file, 2022-12-13 on the 2021 file. That dtestate is the publication date is our reading (inference).

      Note DGAL publishes one file a year with municipal debt, and the 2025 file adds that year without moving the years already published. The source announces no day for it. The rows named here are the most recent one from each edition the site cites: on 2026-09-08, 622 site rows came from this DGAL file.

      Rows this concerns abrantes-divida-dgal-2024 · evora-divida-dgal-2014 · evora-divida-dgal-2017 · evora-divida-dgal-2021

    • [a verificar] the source was not readERSAR

      RASARP, annual report on water and waste services in Portugal, next edition

      Note Nothing was read: ersar.pt did not answer today. The RASARP annual editions page timed out to curl twice and refused the connection to WebFetch, and the domain root timed out too. With no page there is no calendar and no observed dates, so this event carries no indirect evidence at all. The site row agua-nao-faturada-portugal-2024 cites the 2025 RASARP edition and has its address still to confirm.

      Rows this concerns agua-nao-faturada-portugal-2024

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateMunicípio de Évora

      Reappearance of a 2024 accounts page on cm-evora.pt

      What was observed There is no date because there is no announced event: the year has no dossier. The municipality's 'Anos anteriores' page, read today, goes from the 2023 management report (07-06-2024) to the 2025 accounts (21-05-2026) with nothing for 2024. The Évora mandates study says the same, and that is what is being watched: 'No 2024 accounts document was ever published'.

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateInstituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP)

      SIE, registered unemployment by municipality, monthly file

      What was observed IEFP publishes no calendar: the statistics page names the products and does not say when they appear, and the metainformation document there covers concepts. What is observed is the last-modified date the server returns for each file: 2026-07-20 for the June 2026 file, 2026-06-22 for May, 2026-05-20 for April. That the following month's file appears around the 20th is our reading of three cases (inference). On 2026-08-16, the last published month is June.

      Note IEFP publishes one file a month with registered unemployment by municipality, and a new file adds the following month without moving the months already published. The source announces no day for it. The rows named here are the most recent one from each file the site cites: on 2026-09-08, 280 site rows came from these IEFP files.

      Rows this concerns abrantes-desemprego-registado-2025-12 · evora-desemprego-registado-2013 · evora-desemprego-registado-2024

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateINE

      Annual estimates of the resident population

      What was observed INE's release calendar, read in full today (thirteen pages, 2026-08-18 to December 2026), carries no entry under this name; it carries the operation 'Estatísticas Demográficas', dated 2026-11-18, which is a different one. The metainformation of indicator 0012918, read by the engine on 2026-08-10, gives DataUltimaAtualizacao 2026-06-22 and last period 2025. An update around June is what is observed once, not an announced date (inference).

      Rows this concerns evora-populacao-2021 · evora-populacao-2025

    • [a verificar] the source publishes no dateINE

      Study on municipal purchasing power

      What was observed INE's release calendar, read in full today, does not carry this operation; it carries 'Paridades de Poder de Compra · 2025 · December 2026', which is another. The metainformation of indicator 0014580, read by the engine on 2026-08-10, says 'Bienal', gives DataUltimaAtualizacao 2025-11-06 and both first and last period 2023. Biennial from 2023 points to 2025 as the next reference (inference), with no date.

      Rows this concerns alentejo-central-poder-de-compra-2023 · evora-poder-de-compra-2023