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Where can the up-to-date methodology be found?
This methodology site carries the current methodology in full, continuously updated as models and data sources evolve, and reading it requires no subscription and no login — every step, from raw inputs to a finished assessment, is openly available. Each PDF below compiles one solution's methodology as it stood when that file was generated: convenient for reading offline or circulating, but a dated snapshot, so where a PDF and the site differ the site is the current record. Changes to the methodology and to the underlying data are documented as they are made in the monthly, publicly available Release Notes, so no separate edition ever has to be requested or purchased to read the latest version.
Industry Economics & Competitiveness
Scores 33 countries across 7 commodity families on a 14-pillar framework (8 Base and 6 Industry-Specific), tracing how source data becomes scores and ranks, the four reference datasets, the monthly cadence and revision cycle, and the independence commitments behind the analysis.
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Energy Prices & Markets
Covers 33 countries and 12 energy commodities: the five price-assessment approaches (compiled, trade-based, formula-based, manufacturing cost-based, and freight-based), energy market and balance modeling, maritime freight and insurance costs, and cross-country price comparison.
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Primary Commodity Prices
Covers seven industries and 220+ commodities: how official trade data becomes a published price, the five price-assessment approaches, the collection-transformation-loading pipeline, preliminary estimates and short-term forecasts, and the monthly release and revision cycle.
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Commodity Production Costs
Estimates the capital investment, operating cost, and product value for one commodity, production route, country, and quarter — a seven-step workflow that turns public technical literature into a conceptual plant design, with a technology maturity scale behind each assessment.
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