Economies with remote-capable online digital identity systems

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 reporting economies, the geographic presentation is global, the data publisher is World Bank, and the immutable numerical identity is DATA360 WB_ID4D Candidate 119 is broader or differently denominated than “Economies with remote-capable online digital identity systems” in percent of reporting economies. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. For catalog item 119, the provider definition is: (1=yes; 0= no). 1 if country has an online digital identity system/credential to securely authenticate themselves remotely, to access online services and transactions (may be part of, or separate from, the foundational ID system). 0 if country does not have an online digital identity system/credential to securely authenticate themselves remotely, to access online services and transactions. For more information: https://id4d.worldbank.org/ (opens in a new tab) That definition controls the denominator, population, reporting instrument, and statistical meaning. This Indicator records an observed outcome; it does not assert why that outcome changed. Welfare assessment for item 119 uses higherisbetter. Higher 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. The stored value is the published proportion multiplied by 100 and expressed as a percentage. Keeping title, series identity, unit, scope, transformation, and interpretation together prevents the record from mixing incompatible measurement concepts. The numerical observations for catalog item 119 were retrieved from Identification for Development (ID4D) Global Dataset through https://data360api.worldbank.org/data360/data?DATABASEID=WBID4D&INDICATOR=IDDIGAUTHRM&timePeriodFrom=2018&timePeriodTo=2025 (opens in a new tab). The provider landing page is https://data360.worldbank.org/en/indicator/IDDIGAUTHRM (opens in a new tab). The research package records the access date, exact dataset and series identifiers, dimension key AGE=Z|COMPBREAKDOWN1=Z|COMPBREAKDOWN2=Z|COMPBREAKDOWN3=Z|FREQ=A3|SEX=Z|URBANISATION=Z, 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 119 follows this provider method: The World Bank Data360 API supplies country observations for the exact database, series, and dimension tuple. Factrail records a disclosed unweighted annual mean and preserves the dataset version metadata. 2021 combines 197 reporting economies; 2024 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 119 NormalLine starts on 2021-01-01 at 100 percent of reporting economies. 75th 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 zeroisnorm, the value is exactly zero and is never relaxed because non-zero observations are common. For every item 119 point, normallinevalue copies that dated line and deviationfromnormal is stored in raw-unit terms as observation minus NormalLine. Arithmetic sign and welfare sign are separate. A positive raw deviation is adverse for lowerisbetter, favourable for higherisbetter, and adverse above zero for zeroisnorm. The custom governance score retains its provider scale and uses the public methodology explanation rather than title sentiment. The complete retained sequence is 2021: 40.6091370558 percent of reporting economies; 2024: 42.5531914894 percent of reporting economies. The first observation is 40.6091370558 percent of reporting economies in 2021 and the latest is 42.5531914894 percent of reporting economies in 2024. The absolute change is 1.9440544336 percent of reporting economies, equivalent to 4.78723404274% of the absolute starting level. The minimum observed value is 40.6091370558 percent of reporting economies, and the maximum is 42.5531914894 percent of reporting economies. For catalog item 119, the latest observation differs from the NormalLine by -57.4468085106 percent of reporting economies and is classified as negative under higherisbetter. 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 2 retained item 119 observations in the selected 2018-2025 research window. The World Bank ID4D Global Dataset records comparable system-readiness editions in 2021 and 2024. Factrail converts the binary country observations into the disclosed share of reporting economies; it does not present this as population coverage. 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 119 sequence has one consistent numerical identity: DATA360 WB_ID4D 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. 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 119, importance weight 0.8 is generated by indicator-importance-rubric-v1. Its five committed components are directness 0.8, population reach 0.85, persistence 0.75, effect on human capabilities 0.9, and overlap control 0.8. 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. Candidate 119 is broader or differently denominated than “Economies with remote-capable online digital identity systems” in percent of reporting economies. Factrail stores this narrower source-defined measure, preserves the input wording in reconciliation, and makes no claim that the values measure the broader phrase. The correction preserves all 120 catalog candidates as auditable inputs while refusing to fabricate a literal series that the selected official systems do not publish coherently. The resulting canonical Indicator may be narrower, differently denominated, or differently scoped than the preliminary phrase, and that difference is part of the record rather than hidden in a footnote. The 2021-2024 sequence for item 119 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 119 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.