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Local obituary page volume by newspaper

daily count of obituary listings on regional newspaper legacy.com pages, by metro

Feed detail
Measures
daily count of obituary listings on regional newspaper legacy.com pages, by metro
Source
legacy.com metro obituary listing pages (e.g. per-newspaper feeds)
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Obituary counts are a real-time, granular excess-mortality proxy at metro level, well ahead of official vital-stats reporting lag
Maps to
regional deathcare (funeral homes), life-settlement funds, senior housing
Crowdedness
uncontested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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