In Poland’s unemployment profiling system, formal profile changes were extremely rare—0.58% in the cited early-period data—while discretion persisted through interviewing, interpretation and data entry.

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Claim LD05-HQ-C03 (v1.0)

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Outside corrections, how often do officials depart from algorithmic recommendations?Poland's 0.58% formal profile-change rate is an early-period figure for one system, and the claim notes discretion persisted through interviewing and data entry; it is one data point the comparison would standardise, not a lifetime rate.

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Claim type: Fact
Publication status: Eligible for publication, with a qualifier
Verification state: Checked against the primary source. Who checked this claim is not recorded for it; claim checks so far were AI-led, and no person has checked claims against their sources.
Does not license: Lifetime override rate or claim that discretion disappeared
Limitations: Early-period figure; one national system
Source (as cited): Sztandar-Sztanderska & Zieleńska, “Changing social citizenship through information technology,” Social Work & Society 16(2), 2018
Source type: Peer-reviewed journal article (recorded as “Peer-reviewed article”)
Institutional position: Independent academic
Maturity of the evidence: Rapidly maturing evidence
Recorded date: 25 September 2026
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern is recorded on its sources.

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Sztandar-Sztanderska & Zieleńska, “Changing social citizenship through information technology,” Social Work & Society 16(2), 2018 (Peer-reviewed journal article)
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Publication status (coded): ELIGIBLE (QUALIFIED) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER”)
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Maturity (coded): RAPIDLY_MATURING

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1	CLAIM ID	LD05-HQ-C03	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	In Poland’s unemployment profiling system, formal profile changes were extremely rare—0.58% in the cited early-period data—while discretion persisted through interviewing, interpretation and data entry.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	FACT	base_types: FACT
4	RESEARCH STRAND	A — Street-level discretion and professional judgement	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	Sztandar-Sztanderska & Zieleńska, “Changing social citizenship through information technology,” Social Work & Society 16(2), 2018	source_ids: SRC-LD05-SZTANDAR-ZIELENSKA-2018
7	SOURCE TYPE	Peer-reviewed article	classes: PEER_REVIEWED_JOURNAL_ARTICLE
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic	—
9	SCOPE	Polish public employment services; early implementation period	—
10	DESIGN	Qualitative + official-statistics analysis	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Ministry profiling data + interviews	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Rule-based profiling system	—
13	COMPARATOR	Formal override vs embedded frontline discretion	—
14	MAIN RESULT	0.58% formal profile change; interpretation/data-entry discretion remained	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Effective discretion under highly sticky algorithmic classification	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Lifetime override rate or claim that discretion disappeared	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Early-period figure; one national system	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Later Poland follow-up/workaround literature	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	Poland / Polish-English	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	Profile category affected access to support; subgroup effects not fully adjudicated here	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D5, D2, L-C	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Later administrative data showing materially higher formal override	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH QUALIFIER	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: QUALIFIED
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

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SocioLens project. (2026, September 25). In Poland’s unemployment profiling system, formal profile changes were extremely rare—0.58% in the cited early-period data—while discretion persisted through interviewing, interpretation and data entry [Claim LD05-HQ-C03, version v1.0]. SocioLens. https://sociolens-web.pages.dev/claims/ld05-hq-c03/v1.0/

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