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New Hampshire
  		 Response Rates and Reasons for Noninterviews (in percent)
   Reason for Noninterviews
  Year Response Rate1 Refusal Unable to Locate No One Home Temporarily Absent Language Problem Insufficient Data Other
New Hampshire 2004 93.0 1.1 0.3 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.4 4.6
New Hampshire 2003 95.8 2.4 0.4 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.2
New Hampshire 2002 98.0 1.0 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.1
New Hampshire 2001 97.2 1.4 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.0 0.4 0.2
New Hampshire 2000 94.2 2.2 0.1 1.5 0.2 0.2 0.9 0.7

1 As a result of a reduction in funding in 2004, ACS dropped the telephone and personal visit followup operations for the January 2004 panel, thus only allowing mail respondents to contribute to the overall response for that panel. Dropping the nonresponse followup operations for that single panel month reduced the annual response rate by about four percentage points. If we exclude the January panel from the calculation, the annual response rate rises to 97.3% The Census Bureau revised the methodology for calculation of the response rate in 2004 and although a similar cost reduction measure was taken in 2002 the response rates provided for 2002 do not reflect this new method.
 
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