{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "Surrey and Hampshire care-home territory comparison",
  "observedAt": "2026-10-31T14:56:25.695053+00:00",
  "scope": {
    "dataset": "cqc",
    "country": "England",
    "careHome": true,
    "authorities": [
      "Surrey",
      "Hampshire"
    ],
    "selection": "Exact CQC source local authority; careHome=true; no extra service, rating, specialism or minimum-bed filter"
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Care Quality Commission (CQC)",
    "url": "https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/transparency/using-cqc-data",
    "apiUrl": "https://api.service.cqc.org.uk/public/v1",
    "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
    "licenceUrl": "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Care Quality Commission (CQC). This product is not endorsed by or affiliated with the CQC.",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T20:35:05.648Z",
    "importVersion": "1d2a41c51c6a5ccce715c712bf577328"
  },
  "territories": [
    {
      "authority": "Surrey",
      "appliedFilters": {
        "careHome": true,
        "localAuthorityExact": "Surrey"
      },
      "locations": 393,
      "registeredProviders": 222,
      "locationsWithoutProviderId": 0,
      "recordedBeds": 15305,
      "bedCoverage": {
        "positive": 393,
        "zero": 0,
        "missing": 0,
        "invalid": 0
      },
      "fieldAvailability": {
        "website": 253,
        "phone": 386,
        "overallRating": 226,
        "numberOfBeds": 393
      },
      "topFiveRegisteredProviders": {
        "providerCount": 5,
        "locations": 69,
        "shareOfLocations": 0.17557251908396945
      }
    },
    {
      "authority": "Hampshire",
      "appliedFilters": {
        "careHome": true,
        "localAuthorityExact": "Hampshire"
      },
      "locations": 483,
      "registeredProviders": 285,
      "locationsWithoutProviderId": 0,
      "recordedBeds": 15888,
      "bedCoverage": {
        "positive": 483,
        "zero": 0,
        "missing": 0,
        "invalid": 0
      },
      "fieldAvailability": {
        "website": 318,
        "phone": 472,
        "overallRating": 292,
        "numberOfBeds": 483
      },
      "topFiveRegisteredProviders": {
        "providerCount": 5,
        "locations": 95,
        "shareOfLocations": 0.19668737060041408
      }
    }
  ],
  "methodology": {
    "locations": "Count distinct nonblank CQC location IDs in careHome=true with the exact source local authority; duplicate IDs fail verification.",
    "registeredProviders": "Count distinct nonblank CQC provider IDs within each authority selection. Locations missing a provider ID remain in the location denominator.",
    "recordedBeds": "Sum trimmed decimal nonnegative safe-integer bed values. Positive, zero, missing and invalid counts remain separate.",
    "fieldAvailability": "Website and phone require nonblank trimmed source values. Overall rating counts only Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate. Bed availability includes valid zero and positive values.",
    "topFiveRegisteredProviders": "Sum location counts for the five largest registered provider IDs within that authority, divided by all selected locations. IDs are ranked by location count, with provider ID as a stable tie-break. Equal-size ties do not change the summed share.",
    "verification": "Independent read-only aggregation of DataScoop's stored CQC rows matches the public report, count-only query and saved field-availability responses. All observations use the same recorded CQC import."
  },
  "limitations": [
    "This is a fixed comparison observed on 31 October 2026 using the recorded DataScoop import, not live figures or a CQC publisher release date.",
    "The selection is care-home locations in England, not the full CQC provider register, all UK care homes or an exhaustive assessment of need.",
    "Hampshire means the exact CQC source local authority. Locations assigned to Southampton or Portsmouth are outside this selection; source authority boundaries are not a ceremonial-county grouping.",
    "Recorded beds are registered/source-recorded capacity, not vacancies, occupancy or staffed beds. Missing or invalid bed values are not silently reclassified as zero capacity.",
    "Registered provider IDs do not identify verified ultimate corporate owners, brands, procurement teams or independent buying decisions. One organisation may have multiple registered provider IDs.",
    "Filled website and business phone fields do not confirm that details still work or that each location has a distinct contact route. Shared provider details can recur.",
    "Rating completeness counts the four standard overall ratings only; absence is not a judgement of care quality.",
    "A larger list or recorded bed total does not establish more buyers, spend, sales potential or demand."
  ]
}