National and subnational measurement

Cognitive Capital can be measured at every useful geography.

World regions provide comparison context. States, provinces, autonomous communities, departments and cities can establish certified profiles even before a national study exists.

Subnational opportunity

A region does not need to wait for its national government.

A clearly defined state, province, community, department, municipality or city can commission an official measurement when the sample represents its target population and the study meets the same quality standard.

Regional profiles can support

  • Education and workforce planning.
  • Healthy-aging and public-health strategies.
  • Urban–rural and socioeconomic equity analysis.
  • Evaluation of long-term policy initiatives.
  • Comparison with peer regions at similar resource levels.
  • Future measurement of Cognitive Capital Momentum.

How regional reporting works

One protocol, multiple publishable levels.

Define boundaries

Specify the legal or statistical geography and the population eligible for inclusion.

Set precision targets

Determine which regions and demographic groups require separately publishable estimates.

Oversample deliberately

Allocate enough completed assessments to protect effective sample size after weighting.

Publish linked profiles

Regional pages remain connected to the national or world-region context without being misrepresented.

Make your region the first official cognitive-capital reference in its country.

The founding program is open to regional governments, cities, universities, health systems and multi-institution consortia.

Discuss a regional study