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  "purpose": "Rule-based peer sets for Scotland, derived from published state data by a stated formula rather than selected by hand.",
  "built_by": "Data/build_peer_sets.py",
  "recipe": "python Data/fetch_ct_ucoa.py && python Data/build_peer_sets.py",
  "input_file": "src/data/ct_ucoa_town_indicators.json",
  "source": "CT Office of Policy and Management — Municipal Fiscal Indicators (Uniform Chart of Accounts program)",
  "dataset_id": "ej6f-y2wf",
  "source_url": "https://data.ct.gov/resource/ej6f-y2wf.json",
  "pulled": "2026-08-25",
  "dataset_last_updated": "2026-03-03",
  "match_year": "FY 22-23 (OPM fiscal_year_end 2023)",
  "rule": "Standardize each variable across all towns (log-transforming the skewed size and wealth variables), then rank towns by Euclidean distance to Scotland in that standardized space. Variables are equally weighted. Nearest 12 are the peer set.",
  "why_logs": "Population, enrollment, and grand list per resident are heavily right-skewed. On raw values a few outlier towns dominate the variance and flatten real differences among mid-sized towns; on logs, the unit of distance becomes 'twice as big', which is the comparison that makes sense here.",
  "weighting_note": "Equal weights are a stated choice, not a fact. They were not tuned to produce a particular list.",
  "wealth_proxy_note": "Equalized net grand list per resident stands in for community wealth: it is the tax base per person restated to full market value, and it is the quantity that constrains what a mill rate can raise. Median household income would be a useful additional variable but the Census ACS API now requires a key.",
  "relationship_to_existing_sets": "Additional, not a replacement. The hand-built sets (Surrounding towns, DRG E) remain in use everywhere they already appear. Where this set and those sets disagree, the disagreement is itself worth showing.",
  "drg_note": "CT SDE District Reference Groups were created in 1996, last reassigned in 2006 on roughly 2000-census inputs, and have not been updated since. They were designed to compare school districts on family demographics — appropriate for education questions, not for municipal operations, and blind to town size.",
  "excluded": [
   "Groton (city)"
  ],
  "dropped_for_missing_data": [],
  "town_count_ranked": 169
 },
 "target": "Scotland",
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   "log_transformed": true,
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   "stdev_of_transformed": 1.111223,
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   "stdev_of_transformed": 1.228189,
   "target_raw": 165.88
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   "stdev_of_transformed": 0.467644,
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   "log_transformed": false,
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   "stdev_of_transformed": 0.027724,
   "target_raw": 0.10512
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  "unemployment": {
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   "log_transformed": false,
   "mean_of_transformed": 0.030079,
   "stdev_of_transformed": 0.00449,
   "target_raw": 0.0272
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   "purpose": "Town-side spending, debt, reserves, and tax comparisons.",
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     "log_transformed": true
    },
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     "key": "grand_list_per_capita",
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     "log_transformed": true
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     "log_transformed": false
    },
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     "key": "unemployment",
     "label": "Unemployment rate, annual average",
     "log_transformed": false
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    "Eastford",
    "Voluntown",
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    "Chaplin",
    "Bozrah",
    "Middlefield",
    "Barkhamsted",
    "Columbia",
    "Chester",
    "Deep River",
    "Pomfret"
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   "purpose": "Education spending comparisons.",
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