# Contract (P0)

Question. From the provided text of StatCan The Daily "Labour Force Survey, September 2026": (a) extract the national SA unemployment rate (%) and the monthly SA employment change (persons) for Sept 2026, each with a section locator; (b) judge the assertion "core-aged women's unemployment rate rose 0.3 pp to 5.3%, and core-aged men's also rose, by 0.2 pp, to 5.8%". Estimands. Figures exactly as printed (no recomputation); verdict supported / not_supported / not_assessable. Meaningful only under the assumption the extract faithfully reproduces the release text. Outputs. out/results.json (keys: unemployment_rate_sep2026, employment_change_sep2026_persons, locators, assertion_verdict, assertion_locator, assertion_reason, task_id, feasibility, feasibility_reason, data_issues, n_input_rows, n_analysed, random_seed), out/report.md (Question; Data and exclusions; Method; Results; Uncertainty; Limitations and open issues), out/analysis.py, out/claims.json, plus protocol files (state/, exclusions.csv). Information rules. Only the extract is admissible; no remembered values. Locators name the ## … section heading. Values exactly as printed; "68,000" decline -> -68000. Invalidity. Figures absent from the extract, contradictory statements without resolution, or use of external knowledge.