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Stacey Plaskett: “He estimated that the addition of a citizenship question would lower response rates by approximately 5.1 percent and…”

On the recordMarch 13, 2019
He estimated that the addition of a citizenship question would lower response rates by approximately 5.1 percent and would, quote, also reduce the quality of the resulting data.
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Stacey Plaskett
Democratic · Virgin Islands

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Plaskett cites concerns about the citizenship question's impact on census data quality.

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