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Methodology · Evidence & Provenance

Know where every answer came from.

UAEHQ is built on a simple discipline: a figure without attribution does not exist on this platform. Every statistic carries one of five evidence classifications and opens its full provenance — and where the evidence is insufficient, UAEHQ says so instead of answering.

The five classifications

Every figure declares itself.

REPORTED
Published by the source, stored exactly as stated — no adjustment, no interpolation.
CALCULATED
Derived by UAEHQ from reported figures. The formula and its inputs are disclosed in the provenance drawer.
MODELLED
A forecast or estimate, labelled as one, with its origin named. Never mixed silently with reported data.
PROXY
A stand-in for something not directly measured — declared as a proxy, never disguised as the measure itself.
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
The honest answer when data cannot support a claim. UAEHQ renders this state rather than estimating.
The provenance drawer

Click any number.

  • Original source and publication
  • URL or document reference
  • Retrieval time
  • Evidence classification
  • Methodology and calculation inputs
  • Confidence level
  • Period covered and last refresh
Dubai — hotel occupancy
DET · 2026-01-01REPORTED

A live example — click the figure. This is the same drawer that backs every number inside the product, in briefings, and in UAEHQ Intelligence articles.

How data enters UAEHQ

Verified at the door.

Data reaches the platform two ways, and both keep provenance intact.

Live connectors

Open official sources — statistics offices, central banks, aviation authorities, official newsrooms — read directly, on their own cadence, with the source and retrieval time attached to every value.

Verified-source ingest

Published reports and datasets are parsed, classified against a dataset registry, and normalised into provenance-carrying facts. Low-confidence readings stop for human review before anything enters the platform — and customer uploads are never platform-verified: they stay private and are labelled as the customer's own.

Trust is a feature. It has an architecture.