Publication Cadence

How often are assessments published, and when released?

Intratec assessments are published on a monthly cadence: each edition supersedes the prior one, providing a continuous, regularly spaced record over time. Each monthly cycle follows a fixed sequence: official government data — figures issued by national statistical and regulatory authorities — is collected during the last week of each month, and at the start of the following month that data is processed and assessed to produce the update. Exact release dates for each series are listed in the published release schedule. Once produced, each update clears a final information review before publication, then reaches subscribers in multiple delivery formats — report PDFs, the web API, and spreadsheet and BI add-ins. Those access and delivery options are documented in the Intratec Help Center.

How is data timing kept consistent across countries?

Every country in an assessment follows the same monthly collection-and-processing cutoff. Because all inputs are gathered and assessed at the same point in the cycle, the figures within a single edition reflect a common reference moment. This shared cutoff keeps cross-country comparison valid, since no country's data is more or less current than another's within the same edition. Consistency holds even when a specific country's official statistics lag — official trade data is typically released one to three months after the period it covers — because a model-generated Preliminary estimate fills the gap for that country while the rest of the edition proceeds unaffected. Once the lagging country's official figures are released and verified, the Preliminary value is replaced with the Final one, without shifting the shared reference moment for any other country in the edition.

Which cadences do the methodology's tasks run on?

Although assessments publish monthly, the methodology runs on three nested cadences, each carrying its own tasks:

• Monthly — the core production cycle: data collection, transformation, modeling, and publication.
• Quarterly — scheduled maintenance: searching for new sources, revising models, and reviewing assessment descriptions.
• Annual — the broadest pass: market research, an assessments-relevance check, and a full methodology review.

The shorter cadence keeps each monthly edition current; the longer cadences keep the methodology itself sound as markets evolve. The annual review — and the improvements that run continuously between formal reviews — are detailed in the Independence & Limitations section.