v0.5.0

What's Changed

Added

• nisra.stillbirths — monthly stillbirth registrations (#1762)
• nisra.population_projections updated to 2024-based NI-level series (#1762)
• nisra.index_of_production — quarterly Index of Production (IOP) (#1763)
• nisra.index_of_services — quarterly Index of Services (IOS) (#1763)
• nisra.quarterly_employment_survey — employee jobs by sector, Q1 1998 to present (#1764)
• nisra.planning_statistics — NI planning applications by council (quarterly) (#1784)
• nisra.ashe extended with real earnings, occupation/industry change, and pay distribution — Figures 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 (#1789)
• gender_pay_gap — UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting service data source (#1741)
• Sphinx documentation deployed to bolster.help via GitHub Pages (#1740)
• Weekly NISRA feed drift detection via TF-IDF (#1732)

Changed

• NISRA economic indicator modules consolidated into dedicated files — composite_index, index_of_production, index_of_services (#1819)
• All NISRA CLI commands standardised to use --dimension flag (deprecated --table) (#1788)

Fixed

• nisra.population scraper fixed after NISRA site restructure (#1758)
• nisra.composite_index URL updated to new /economic-output/ path (#1809)
• nisra.population_projections URL auto-discovery for 2024-based series (#1812)
• CI retry backoff capped to prevent hangs when NISRA servers rate-limit CI runners (#1796)
• ashe linked-tables parsing refactored to content-fingerprint detection (#1748)

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0