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 Metadata-Version: 2.4
 Name: microdf-python
-Version: 1.5.3
+Version: 1.5.5
 Summary: Weighted pandas DataFrames and Series for survey microdata
 Author-email: Max Ghenis <max@policyengine.org>
 License: MIT
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 # microdf
 Weighted pandas DataFrames and Series for survey microdata analysis.
 
-## Overview
-microdf provides `MicroDataFrame` and `MicroSeries` classes that extend pandas functionality with integrated weighting support, essential for accurate survey data analysis.
+## Why this exists
+
+Survey microdata comes with weights, and analysing it in pandas means getting two
+things right that pandas will not do for you.
+
+**The estimators are not the obvious ones.** A weighted median is not the median of
+weighted values. Weighted variance requires choosing between treating weights as
+frequencies or as precision. A top-1% share requires deciding what happens to a
+record that straddles the cutoff. Each of these is a decision, and hand-rolling it
+per analysis means making it differently each time. `microdf` makes each choice
+once, documents it, and tests it — quantiles follow the inverse CDF so they can be
+checked against R's `survey::svyquantile`, and variance treats weights as
+frequencies so integer weights agree with `numpy` on the replicated sample.
+
+**Weights have to survive the pipeline.** Before any estimator runs, weights must
+stay aligned with their rows through merges, filters, grouping and reindexing. When
+they do not, nothing raises. The pipeline completes and returns a plausible wrong
+number. This is the harder of the two problems, and it is why `microdf` carries
+weights inside the object rather than beside it.
+
+If you are computing a poverty rate or a Gini on weighted survey data, those are
+the two ways to get a believable-looking wrong answer.
 
 ## Key Features
 - **MicroDataFrame**: A pandas DataFrame with an integrated weight column

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