The floor measure prices the floor the way employment or prices are measured: a published method, regular data, and revisions on a schedule. Several independent bodies each estimate the cost of a floor-standard home and the rest of the floor in each region. The figure actually paid is the median of their estimates, chosen by a rule fixed in advance, so no single body controls it, and every estimate and the spread between them are published.
It refines the framework’s rule on measurement. No single number may judge a person or a place. An operative figure may price a standard. The same bodies also publish the supply gap and the care gap.
Who those bodies are, how they are paid, and how they are kept independent is set out in who measures.