Survey product decision record
StatMedAnalysis | 7 November 2026 | Use aggregate or hypothetical figures only.

Purpose: choose a product before inspecting the direction of its estimates. Make one copy per decision.
1. Define the target decision, decision deadline, unit, universe, area and acceptable period.
2. Enter a row per available product, using the publisher’s table list. Set mandatory criteria before filling the scorecard.
3. Reject products that miss a mandatory criterion; explain any tradeoff among the remaining options.

Decision: _____________________  Owner/date: _____________________
Mandatory coverage: __________  Latest acceptable period: ________  Precision needed and why: __________
Candidate | Collection period | Table/universe | Areas available / required | Precision evidence | Mandatory criteria met? | Source
_________ | _________________ | ______________ | __________________________ | __________________ | ______________________ | ______
_________ | _________________ | ______________ | __________________________ | __________________ | ______________________ | ______
Decision and rationale: _____________________  Revisit if: _____________________

Fictional example: outreach allocation across three tracts and a county requires all four areas. A one-year product covers only the county; a comparable five-year table covers all four. Select the five-year product, label its full period, and avoid describing the result as a snapshot of the final year.
Completion check: all four target areas have a known availability status and the same universe. If no product passes, record “question needs revision” rather than filling missing cells with zero.