FTB-C000006 / Data quality concept

Universe Partition

A universe partition assigns every eligible issue to exactly one declared classification bucket.

Also known asbreadth classification partition

Definitions

In plain terms

Before trusting a breadth count, the builder checks that every eligible security is accounted for once and only once, including records that cannot yet be classified.

Technical

In the pilot contract, the partition is exhaustive and mutually exclusive across advancing, declining, unchanged, excluded, and unclassified issues, and its counts reconcile to universe size.

Scope

Nasdaq documents several published summary categories; the five-part exhaustive reconciliation and its failure behavior are explicit Fintech Builder data-contract choices.

Examples

  • A 500-issue universe can reconcile as 240 advancing, 210 declining, 30 unchanged, 15 excluded, and 5 unclassified.

Common misconceptions

  • An unclassified issue is not automatically unchanged or excluded.

Concept relationships

Where this concept is used

Evidence and governance

  1. Daily Market Summary Data Fields and Definitions Nasdaq, Inc. · official exchange

    Supports: short definition, technical definition, units

    Limits: Does not define the pilot's exhaustive partition, causal cutoff, revision lineage, EMA policy, or normalized breadth formula.

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Last reviewed
2026-07-26
Next review
2027-07-26
Record status
published