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Data Quality Assessment of the American Community Survey Internet Response Data

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Data Quality Assessment of the American Community Survey Internet Response Data

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Data Quality Assessment of the American Community Survey Internet Response Data
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This report compares the quality of Internet data collected during the 2011 April American Community Survey (ACS) Internet Test to mail return data from the same test. This analysis is intended to help determine whether the Internet provides comparable data to mail in terms of expected relationships between variables and response error.

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