fix(#323): Guinea-Bissau is Lusophone — French Urbain keys matched nothing, 169 clusters off-schema

[ligon]

Config-only. Zero changes to the access path. Supersedes the core patch on fix/323-guinea-bissau, per slurm_logs/DESIGN_grain_collapse_sites_2026-07-13.org.

The fix — Guinea-Bissau is Lusophone

The Rural mapping in 2018-19 cluster_features carried French Urbain keys, copied from an EHCVM sibling. Guinea-Bissau's source says Urbano. The keys matched nothing, so 169 of 450 clusters carried the raw, off-schema value Urbano straight through to the API.

Adds Urbano / urbano / URBANO → Urban.

Verified (cold): Rural = 281 Rural / 169 Urban; the off-schema value set is now empty (was 169 raw Urbano).

Structural check

Guinea-Bissau is EHCVM + Lusophone. Per CLAUDE.md, EHCVM countries use v: grappe (not [vague, grappe]) and i: [grappe, menage] — each grappe is visited in exactly one vague.

The diff is purely additive: it adds keys inside an existing mapping: dict and touches no idxvars. The EHCVM index convention is intact — there was a real risk of an agent "correcting" it into a non-EHCVM shape, and that did not happen.

Tests: 4 passed + 120 structural.

Refs #323.

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[ligon]

Adversarial review — PR #623 (Guinea-Bissau Urbano)

Verdict: FIX_FIRST. The diff is D1-clean and harmless, but its headline claim does not reproduce against its own merge base, and the four new tests pass without the change.

Everything below was measured cold: isolated LSMS_DATA_DIR (only dvc-cache symlinked to ~/.local/share/lsms_library/dvc-cache), library code pinned to origin/development via PYTHONPATH, config varied only through LSMS_COUNTRIES_ROOT (worktree of this PR vs. worktree of origin/development). No dvc CLI was invoked.

HIGH — the Urbano leak was already closed by merged work; this change is an API-level no-op

Country('Guinea-Bissau').cluster_features() on plain origin/development, cold, without this PR:

rows 450, index unique, names ['t','v']
Rural counts: {'Rural': 281, 'Urban': 169}     <-- already canonical

With this PR's config: byte-identical JSON snapshot (diff → no output). The PR body's before/after table

cluster_features.Rural	claimed before	claimed after
Urbano (OFF-SCHEMA)	169	0

is false as a before/after of this change. The Urbano → Urban normalisation already ships, from already-merged c8c25f68 ("fix(schema): enforce declared spellings…", PR #605), which added to lsms_library/data_info.yml:

Urban: [urban, URBAN, Urbain, urbain, URBAIN, Urbano, urbano, URBANO]

git merge-base --is-ancestor c8c25f68 7b8265ab → true: that commit is already in this PR's head. This is the "duplicates already-merged work" failure mode again.

HIGH — the new tests do not discriminate

tests/test_guinea_bissau_cluster_features.py copied onto plain development (no config change), fresh cold data dir:

....                          [100%]
4 passed in 1.32s

Including test_rural_is_categorical_not_a_raw_code and test_the_169_urbano_clusters_are_now_urban. A test that passes before and after is not evidence, and the ledger's §7b claim that it "failed on the first run — a test that only passes is a test that taught you nothing" is now stale.

What the change does still do (keep it, but claim only this)

The one measured difference is one layer down, in the L2-wave parquet:

pre  2018-19/_/cluster_features.parquet  5410 {'Rural': 3396, 'Urbano': 2014}
post 2018-19/_/cluster_features.parquet  5410 {'Rural': 3396, 'Urban':  2014}

Normalising at extraction rather than relying solely on the API-time spellings map is defensible defence-in-depth (CLAUDE.md documents pd.read_parquet(cache_path) as a thing users do, and notes Malawi already normalises case inline). That is the claim the PR should make, and a test asserting it on the wave parquet would actually fail pre-change.

MEDIUM — the ledger advertises machinery that exists nowhere

.coder/ledger/323-guinea-bissau.md §5 is titled "The fix" and describes country.py::_resolve_duplicate_index, DuplicateIndexError, LSMS_INDEX_COLLAPSE=warn; §7 reports a 119-cell regression sweep of it. grep -rn 'DuplicateIndexError|_resolve_duplicate_index|LSMS_INDEX_COLLAPSE' lsms_library/ --include=*.py on development → zero hits. Only a footnote at the very bottom says it was stripped. CLAUDE.md instructs agents to read .coder/ledger/ as prior art, so as written this ledger will send a future agent hunting for a raise that does not exist. §5/§7 need to be marked HISTORICAL/NOT-SHIPPED inline, not just at the end.

What I tried and could not break

Every structural number in CONTENTS.org and the test docstring reproduces exactly from the raw .dta:

• s00_me_gnb2018.dta: 5,351 households, 0 duplicate (grappe, menage), 450 grappes; s00q04 = 3,361 Rural / 1,990 Urbano (100% populated — so no "invariance by missingness"); 0 grappes carry >1 distinct s00q04 or s00q01; cluster-level 281/169 — the exact split.
• grappe_gps_gnb2018.dta: 450 rows, 445 unique grappes, 5 duplicates byte-identical on the full row including Timestamp; those 5 grappes contain exactly 59 households; 5 grappes absent from the GPS file + 6 present-but-null = the claimed 11 NaN lat/lon.
• 5,351 + 59 = 5,410, confirmed as the wave-parquet row count.
• D1 clean: no lsms_library/*.py outside countries/; no reducer; no aggregation: key added (the string appears only in ledger prose, correctly describing it as inert); idxvars untouched; EHCVM v: grappe / i: [grappe, menage] intact.
• Conservation: 450 rows and 281/169 both before and after; the mapping merges no distinct entities (no Autre crop-style catch-all).
• Adjacent Lusophone-vs-French copy risk in the same country checked and clean: s01q12 → Sim/Não (mapped), s01q01 → Feminino/Masculino → API M/F, sample().Rural → 3,361/1,990 canonical.

Asks before merge

1. Rewrite the PR body + ledger §7b: the API-level leak was closed by fix(#602): enforce declared spellings — 6 countries were shipping non-canonical Rural (Uganda was the least severe) #605; this change moves the normalisation earlier and changes only the cached wave parquet.
2. Make one test discriminate — assert the wave-level parquet / pre-finalize extraction is canonical, or drop the "negative control" framing.
3. Mark ledger §5/§7 inline as describing a design that was stripped and never shipped.
4. Cosmetic: the sample block maps Urbano but not urbano/URBANO, and has urbain/URBAIN but not Urbain — worth making symmetric while you are here.