Parliament Pulse — Methodology

Parliament Pulse is a media-coverage tone tracker — NOT a statistical opinion poll. It measures how a fixed list of Kenyan newsrooms covered Parliament. It does not measure public opinion, approval, or what Kenyans think — newsroom coverage is not a random sample of anyone, and we never present it as one.

This page documents the legacy classification pipeline and its thresholds. Its results are currently withheld: a mutable review flag or confidence score is not a signed, generation-bound publication grant.

The pipeline, step by step

Traceability

Candidate rows retain their source outlet, publication date and source URL for internal audit. Public results will require a typed evidence projection, independent counterchecks and an explicit release grant. Until then there are no public figures or item-level classifications to interpret.

Which sources we use

The current active allowlist as configured in this system:

Topics tracked

What this can and cannot tell you

It can tell you how allowlisted Kenyan newsrooms have been covering Parliament and its business, and how that tone shifts over time. It cannot tell you what Kenyans think, how popular anyone is, or how a vote would go — it is not a survey, has no sampling frame, and should never be quoted as “public opinion” or “approval”. Corrections are welcome via Contact.