Direct institutional crawl data powers market-composition dashboards. Institutional continuing education pages provide the source basis for examining credential supply by province, category, credential type, skill facets, and price range or median. This scope supports comparisons grounded in a consistent source population.
Platform catalogues are included for discovery. They can be searched alongside the broader corpus and reviewed through offering records, but they are deliberately excluded from market-composition statistics. This is a rigour decision: platform subscription pricing could distort price medians and make dashboard figures less comparable with directly crawled institutional offerings.
The coverage is focused on public offering information for micro-credentials, certificates, and non-credit continuing education programs. It does not claim to represent every credential offered by every provider, nor does it extend beyond the source types described here. A corpus boundary is necessary for transparent interpretation, particularly when users are comparing market composition or price information.
Source records preserve collection timestamps so users can understand when an offering was collected. An offering page may change after collection, and source availability or field presentation can differ across providers.
Platform catalogue records have known structural limitations. They record a pricing model rather than a dollar amount, so CredScape does not display a dollar figure for those entries. A substantial portion of platform catalogue records also lacks skills, duration, and price fields because those fields are not structurally available through the scrape design. This reflects source design, not a failed collection run.
Directly crawled institutional records and platform catalogue records remain useful together when their roles are understood. The former supports market-composition analysis. The latter broadens searchable discovery while remaining outside dashboard statistics where its pricing structure would affect interpretation.