June 2025: Focused bug fix in ONSdigital/construction-survey-results to correct outlier weighting and improve consistency. The Outlier Detection Configuration and Weight Calculation Fix ensures weights for question 290 are derived from the target configuration value (not adjustedresponse) and standardizes the field name from outlier_weights to outlier_weight. The change was validated via estimation-output testing and committed as 7287af85ec07a6bdbdfc9ff4a9f981d68872046f. Business impact includes more accurate outlier handling, stable reporting, and easier maintenance.

May 2025 delivered meaningful, business-value focused enhancements across two survey-result repositories, improving reliability, testability, and end-to-end data processing. Key features include robust configuration handling and snapshot management, safer data-processing pipelines, and end-to-end Q290 derivation/imputation scaffolding, complemented by staging/test-data improvements and code-quality/packaging enhancements to enable safer releases and faster iteration.

April 2025 Monthly Summary (across two repos): Delivered key data processing capabilities and strengthened validation and configuration documentation to improve data quality, maintainability, and business value. Focused on reliable data transformations, clearer logging, and scalable configurations to support evolving survey products.

March 2025 — Monthly summary for ONSdigital/monthly-business-survey-results. This period focused on delivering a more accurate, configurable monthly data pipeline, strengthening data quality, and enabling downstream analytics. Key improvements include: - Monthly staging and imputation enhancements: incorporate monthly actual pounds (monthly equivalents), leverage new auxiliary data for imputation, and refactor stage_dataframe to use configuration-driven column mappings for turnover conversion (commits bfed522..., 69ea2e57...). - Estimation robustness and mapping corrections: validate null values in census and sampled columns and fix mapping misalignment by swapping mapper configuration (commits b34bc5dd..., 4d1fcd3e...). - Estimation results export: enable saving estimation outputs to CSV with updated unit tests (commit a1ca2771...). - Documentation and maintenance improvements: consolidate config/docs, cleanup README, add defaults for master_column_type_dict, update test data (commits ba43b6e6..., 90841ca3..., e67352e2..., 19f12229...). - Overall impact: increased data accuracy and reliability of monthly metrics, improved configurability, and stronger foundations for downstream analytics and reporting.