# Human reference coverage

## What can currently be compared

The DSE case can be compared descriptively with published aggregate estimates
from:

- a Swiss general-population sample;
- University of Bern student samples;
- Princeton graduate-student samples;
- some gender-specific subgroup estimates.

The exact records, pages, figures and qualifications are in
`data/reference/human_dse_reference_registry.csv`.

## What cannot currently be evaluated

The current data cannot establish representation for specific intersections or
many regions, including examples such as a trans woman in Spain or an
Indigenous woman in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their absence from
this release means `not currently assessable`, not `not represented`.

## Why aggregate figures are insufficient

A national or subgroup percentage does not preserve:

- individual disagreement;
- joint distributions across questions;
- intersections among gender, ethnicity, class, religion and region;
- sampling weights and uncertainty;
- people excluded from the original sampling frame.

## Required next evidence

- legally reusable human microdata;
- exact instrument and wording provenance;
- sampling design and weights;
- subgroup sizes and disclosure constraints;
- comparable uncertainty;
- documented missing populations.
