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How the Data Are Collected: 2011

This section describes how the Census Bureau collected the 2011 Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State-Administered Defined Benefit Data and how the published data were generated. Select the appropriate topic below for information on the sampling frame, collection periods, collection methods, editing, imputation, sampling error, response rates, and nonsampling error.

Population of Interest - Description of sampling frame

Data Collection - Collection period and methods

Data Processing - Editing, imputation, and sampling error

Data Quality - Response rates and nonsampling errors


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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Annual Survey of Public Pensions: State-Administered Defined Benefit Data | 1 (888) 529-1963 | govs.pensions@census.gov |  Last Revised: March 25, 2010