Exact relationship builder
Indicator comparison lab
Compare two measures while keeping their entities, periods, units, and source populations visible. A visual association does not establish causation.
Paired visualization
Private payroll employment and hourly earnings
12 exact pairs in this slice- Exact pairs
- 12
- all plotted
- Correlation
- -0.85
- Strong negative association
- R²
- 0.73
- descriptive linear fit
- Evidence
- 12
- verified on both sides
Paired comparison cohort
0 / 5 entities · fixed 12-pair benchmarkSelect a point, then add it or its nearest exact-pair peers.
The cohort changes the overlay and exact export only. Full-slice medians, correlation, quadrants, and coverage remain fixed.
- Payroll employment
- 129,436
- Verified · High
- Hourly earnings
- $28.54
- Verified · High
- X source
- bls-ces-public-data-2026
- Y source
- bls-ces-public-data-2026
Coverage diagnostics
What entered the plane, and what did not
Pairing coverage is reported separately for each indicator denominator. A matched row is not evidence that either source covers the full underlying economy.
The National Economic Context Observatory places exact source observations on one dated workspace, but it does not merge their units, frequencies, universes, seasonal-adjustment conventions, or release calendars. Monthly, quarterly, calendar-year, and fiscal-year signals keep independent scales. Missing periods are not interpolated or carried forward. These descriptive accounts do not establish concentration, profits, markups, employer power, a legal antitrust market, policy effectiveness, welfare effects, or causation, and they are never combined into a composite score. Payroll jobs and nominal hourly earnings retain different units; their association is descriptive and composition-sensitive.
Quadrants use this filtered slice's medians: 120,248 and $29.50.
Slice ledgers
Period and group structure
Counts and correlations stay inside exact paired rows. Small groups may be too thin for a stable descriptive association.
| Group | Pairs | X avg. | Y avg. | r |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment and earnings | 12 | 120.2K | $29.40 | -0.85 |
Reusable comparison packet
Carry the exact contract into analysis
The endpoint returns every matched row in the filtered slice, both observation identifiers, both source routes, evidence status, confidence, entity, group, and period.
This lab compares only declared same-entity, same-period pairs. Missing sides are excluded rather than imputed, correlation remains descriptive, and unlike universes are never combined into a composite market-power score.
Relationship directory
15 declared planes, no arbitrary joins
Each route names both measures and its exact pairing rule. Select a plane to rebuild the lab around that bounded universe.