Across the cohort the Office expects an anomaly rate of roughly 3.7%: subjects who refuse the recommended eldercare-tier upgrade, subjects who decline standard end-of-cycle scheduling, bereaved partners who do not transition into Memorial Capitalism's grief register. The anomaly rate has been stable for three cohort decades. The Office considers it part of normal throughput.
The Office maintains an Anomaly Register for tracking subjects whose late-Phase behavior falls outside the published bands. The extract below shows the standard classifications.
| code | pattern | standard action |
|---|---|---|
| A-01 | Refusal of Tier-3 transfer | Soft outreach · quarterly review |
| A-02 | Sustained mourning > 14 mo | Bereavement Coaching Pathway |
| A-03 | Unscheduled end-of-cycle declaration | Form 27-Z · advance-directive review |
| A-04 | Estate-instrument refusal | Legacy Counselor referral |
| A-05 | Continued political activity post-72 | Note on file · no intervention |
| A-06 | Public off-script statement | Communications-team review · soft correction |
Tbl. 7.5.A — Phase-VII Anomaly Register (extract, rev. 27.4)
In the Office's accounting, a residue is an expected remainder: the portion of the subject's affective signal its instruments could not convert. The Office's published guidance is that residues are inevitable, are recorded but not actively pursued, and are expected to settle within two cohort generations as the residue-producer ages out and the survivors normalize to the published register.
The Office notes, as part of the standard Phase-VII after-action, that some residues do not settle. The note is small. The next paragraph of the after-action returns to the throughput statistics.