The primary purpose of this manual is to provide guidance for translating published data into improved monitoring, reporting, and decision-making processes.

A secondary objective is to support users in interpreting infrastructure data. Such users may include contract monitors, journalists, oversight authorities, independent review professionals or evaluator teams applying the CoST Independent Review Manual or the CoST Infrastructure Transparency Index Manual.

The manual presents practical examples of indicators classified by project phase, areas of interest and risk areas.

This Data Use Manual complements the Data Publication Manual.