Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses : Report to the Ranking Minority Member, Subcomittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security, Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate

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Page 14 - However, the practical difficulties of conducting any survey may introduce errors, commonly referred to as nonsampling errors. For example, difficulties in how a particular question is interpreted, in the sources of information that are available to respondents, or in how the data are entered into a database or were analyzed, can introduce unwanted variability into the survey results. We took steps in the development of the questionnaire, the data collection, and the data analysis to minimize these...
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