## What it measures Data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket price as a share of monthly GNI per capita is the canonical measurable outcome used to reconcile catalog item 113. It belongs to **Digital Well-Being, Access, and Safety**, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with meaningful connectivity, digital inclusion, online access, and the security of digital participation. The exact stored unit is **percent of monthly GNI per capita**, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is **International Telecommunication Union**, and the immutable numerical identity is `ITU-ICT-PRICE#i271mb_1GB5_GNI#identity`. The preliminary catalog candidate 113 is reconciled to the exact official series “Data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket price as a share of monthly GNI per capita” in percent of monthly GNI per capita. This is a deliberate canonical correction: the database title names what the values actually measure, while the input wording remains in the reconciliation and audit trail. No hidden proxy label, fallback series, or silently substituted denominator remains. For catalog item 113, the provider definition is: Official ITU data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB price basket expressed as a percentage of monthly GNI per capita. Factrail keeps this exact basket identity and does not splice later editions with different data allowances. That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. The Russian seed wording does not override it, and provider units and denominators remain unchanged. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed. Welfare assessment for item 113 uses `lower_is_better`. Lower observations are treated as better welfare relative to the dated comparative reference. The direction applies to the stored official measure after the disclosed transformation, if any, rather than being inferred from an emotionally positive or negative title. No mathematical transformation is applied before persistence. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts. ## How it is measured The numerical observations for catalog item 113 were retrieved from **ITU ICT Price Baskets 2008-2025** through https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/ICT_Prices/ITU_ICTPriceBaskets_2008-2025.xlsx. The provider landing page is https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/ICTprices/default.aspx. The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key `basket=data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB;denominator=monthly-GNI-per-capita`, unit, provider metadata, transformation, and yearly aggregation label. The bounded Source and Evidence records can therefore reproduce which numbers were used without treating a generic homepage as row-level proof. Measurement provenance for item 113 follows this provider method: The ITU historical workbook supplies economy observations for one exact price-basket code and denominator. Factrail records a disclosed unweighted annual mean and does not join editions whose data allowances changed. 2018 combines 184 reporting economies; 2019 combines 183 reporting economies; 2020 combines 188 reporting economies. The output keeps full numerical precision through NormalLine, deviation, and interpretation calculations. Display clients may round for readability, but the persisted value is not squeezed into a zero-to-one score and is not rounded before calculation. The item 113 NormalLine starts on 2018-01-01 at **0.81 percent of monthly GNI per capita**. 25th percentile of provider-published reporting-economy observations in the selected series and dimensions. The calculation keeps the source unit, dimensions, and transformation fixed and is a comparative reference rather than an invented statutory target. For `zero_is_norm`, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For other interpretation modes, the benchmark is empirical and versioned: a later provider revision can justify a new dated line, but it does not silently rewrite the research package used for this seed. For every item 113 point, `normal_line_value` copies that dated line and `deviation_from_normal` is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for `lower_is_better`, favourable for `higher_is_better`, and adverse above zero for `zero_is_norm`. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment. ## What the data shows The complete retained sequence is 2018: 4.8902173913 percent of monthly GNI per capita; 2019: 4.3357923497 percent of monthly GNI per capita; 2020: 3.4149468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita. The first observation is **4.8902173913 percent of monthly GNI per capita in 2018** and the latest is **3.4149468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita in 2020**. The absolute change is -1.4752705828 percent of monthly GNI per capita, equivalent to -30.1677914243% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 3.4149468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita, and the maximum is 4.8902173913 percent of monthly GNI per capita. For catalog item 113, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by **2.6049468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita** and is classified as **negative** under `lower_is_better`. That classification is a deterministic comparison, not a causal explanation or editorial verdict. A movement may reflect real change, altered reporting coverage, revised estimates, a changed survey frame, or several of those at once. There are 3 retained item 113 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. The exact ITU data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket is published for 2018-2020. Later ITU editions use different 2 GB and 5 GB baskets, which are not spliced into this series because they are not the same measurement identity. Missing years are absent observations, not zeroes. The sequence is intentionally irregular when the official source is irregular, because a smooth-looking line created by invented values would be methodologically false. The displayed global item 113 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: `ITU-ICT-PRICE#i271mb_1GB5_GNI#identity`. No second source series is spliced into a gap, no latest value is copied into a missing year, and no country-only observation is relabelled as a World value. If the source later adds or revises an observation, the update must arrive as a new reviewed research package with its own checksum and audit record. ## Drivers and interpretation Data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket price as a share of monthly GNI per capita can be associated with economic, institutional, demographic, environmental, behavioural, or service-delivery mechanisms, but this seed does not create a DriverIndicatorImpact from topical resemblance. A defensible graph edge requires an existing Driver, direction, strength, lag, confidence, and Source/Evidence that supports the mechanism. The outcome series alone cannot establish that causal chain. For item 113, importance weight **0.8500000000000001** is generated by `indicator-importance-rubric-v1`. Its five committed components are directness 0.9, population reach 0.85, persistence 0.85, effect on human capabilities 0.8, and overlap control 0.9. The formula weights them 0.35, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.05, then rounds to the nearest 0.05. The value is deterministic and reproducible; it is not an intuitive score assigned while drafting prose. ## Limitations and caveats The 2018-2020 sequence for item 113 is too short for strong causal or structural claims. Cross-economy comparability can be affected by institutional definitions, survey coverage, modelled estimates, missing observations, classification practices, revisions, and unequal statistical capacity. A global aggregate or unweighted reporting-economy mean can also conceal distributional extremes and should not be used as an individual-level estimate. The item 113 NormalLine is a transparent comparative reference, not a claim that every jurisdiction has the same legal target or feasible frontier. The source may revise both historical points and metadata. Any later refresh must preserve the earlier Source, Evidence, checksum, and audit trail; it must not mutate the meaning of an already reviewed series identity.
How to read it
Lower is better — readings above the norm count as worse, so they plot downward here.
Measured value over time. Its norm (0.81 percent of monthly GNI per capita) is far off this scale, so the series stays worse than norm throughout — the deviation badge shows the gap.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
No drivers are linked to this indicator yet.
Data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket price as a share of monthly GNI per capita is the canonical measurable outcome used to reconcile catalog item 113. It belongs to Digital Well-Being, Access, and Safety, the part of the welfare catalog concerned with meaningful connectivity, digital inclusion, online access, and the security of digital participation. The exact stored unit is percent of monthly GNI per capita, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is International Telecommunication Union, and the immutable numerical identity is ITU-ICT-PRICE#i271mb_1GB5_GNI#identity. The preliminary catalog candidate 113 is reconciled to the exact official series “Data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket price as a share of monthly GNI per capita” in percent of monthly GNI per capita. This is a deliberate canonical correction: the database title names what the values actually measure, while the input wording remains in the reconciliation and audit trail. No hidden proxy label, fallback series, or silently substituted denominator remains.
For catalog item 113, the provider definition is: Official ITU data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB price basket expressed as a percentage of monthly GNI per capita. Factrail keeps this exact basket identity and does not splice later editions with different data allowances. That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. The Russian seed wording does not override it, and provider units and denominators remain unchanged. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed.
Welfare assessment for item 113 uses lower_is_better. Lower observations are treated as better welfare relative to the dated comparative reference. The direction applies to the stored official measure after the disclosed transformation, if any, rather than being inferred from an emotionally positive or negative title. No mathematical transformation is applied before persistence. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts.
The numerical observations for catalog item 113 were retrieved from ITU ICT Price Baskets 2008-2025 through https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/ICT_Prices/ITU_ICTPriceBaskets_2008-2025.xlsx (opens in a new tab). The provider landing page is https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/ICTprices/default.aspx (opens in a new tab). The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key basket=data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB;denominator=monthly-GNI-per-capita, unit, provider metadata, transformation, and yearly aggregation label. The bounded Source and Evidence records can therefore reproduce which numbers were used without treating a generic homepage as row-level proof.
Measurement provenance for item 113 follows this provider method: The ITU historical workbook supplies economy observations for one exact price-basket code and denominator. Factrail records a disclosed unweighted annual mean and does not join editions whose data allowances changed. 2018 combines 184 reporting economies; 2019 combines 183 reporting economies; 2020 combines 188 reporting economies. The output keeps full numerical precision through NormalLine, deviation, and interpretation calculations. Display clients may round for readability, but the persisted value is not squeezed into a zero-to-one score and is not rounded before calculation.
The item 113 NormalLine starts on 2018-01-01 at 0.81 percent of monthly GNI per capita. 25th percentile of provider-published reporting-economy observations in the selected series and dimensions. The calculation keeps the source unit, dimensions, and transformation fixed and is a comparative reference rather than an invented statutory target. For zero_is_norm, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For other interpretation modes, the benchmark is empirical and versioned: a later provider revision can justify a new dated line, but it does not silently rewrite the research package used for this seed.
For every item 113 point, normal_line_value copies that dated line and deviation_from_normal is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for lower_is_better, favourable for higher_is_better, and adverse above zero for zero_is_norm. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment.
The complete retained sequence is 2018: 4.8902173913 percent of monthly GNI per capita; 2019: 4.3357923497 percent of monthly GNI per capita; 2020: 3.4149468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita. The first observation is 4.8902173913 percent of monthly GNI per capita in 2018 and the latest is 3.4149468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita in 2020. The absolute change is -1.4752705828 percent of monthly GNI per capita, equivalent to -30.1677914243% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 3.4149468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita, and the maximum is 4.8902173913 percent of monthly GNI per capita.
For catalog item 113, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by 2.6049468085 percent of monthly GNI per capita and is classified as negative under lower_is_better. That classification is a deterministic comparison, not a causal explanation or editorial verdict. A movement may reflect real change, altered reporting coverage, revised estimates, a changed survey frame, or several of those at once.
There are 3 retained item 113 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. The exact ITU data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket is published for 2018-2020. Later ITU editions use different 2 GB and 5 GB baskets, which are not spliced into this series because they are not the same measurement identity. Missing years are absent observations, not zeroes. The sequence is intentionally irregular when the official source is irregular, because a smooth-looking line created by invented values would be methodologically false.
The displayed global item 113 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: ITU-ICT-PRICE#i271mb_1GB5_GNI#identity. No second source series is spliced into a gap, no latest value is copied into a missing year, and no country-only observation is relabelled as a World value. If the source later adds or revises an observation, the update must arrive as a new reviewed research package with its own checksum and audit record.
Data-only mobile-broadband 1.5 GB basket price as a share of monthly GNI per capita can be associated with economic, institutional, demographic, environmental, behavioural, or service-delivery mechanisms, but this seed does not create a DriverIndicatorImpact from topical resemblance. A defensible graph edge requires an existing Driver, direction, strength, lag, confidence, and Source/Evidence that supports the mechanism. The outcome series alone cannot establish that causal chain.
For item 113, importance weight 0.8500000000000001 is generated by indicator-importance-rubric-v1. Its five committed components are directness 0.9, population reach 0.85, persistence 0.85, effect on human capabilities 0.8, and overlap control 0.9. The formula weights them 0.35, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, and 0.05, then rounds to the nearest 0.05. The value is deterministic and reproducible; it is not an intuitive score assigned while drafting prose.
The 2018-2020 sequence for item 113 is too short for strong causal or structural claims. Cross-economy comparability can be affected by institutional definitions, survey coverage, modelled estimates, missing observations, classification practices, revisions, and unequal statistical capacity. A global aggregate or unweighted reporting-economy mean can also conceal distributional extremes and should not be used as an individual-level estimate.
The item 113 NormalLine is a transparent comparative reference, not a claim that every jurisdiction has the same legal target or feasible frontier. The source may revise both historical points and metadata. Any later refresh must preserve the earlier Source, Evidence, checksum, and audit trail; it must not mutate the meaning of an already reviewed series identity.
Factrail hasn’t mapped a verified causal chain for this indicator yet. This reflects the relationships currently captured in the graph.