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Improving the Quality of Economic Data: Lessons from the HRS and AHEAD

F. Thomas Juster Survey Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104, USA
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James P. Smith RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 90407, USA
Pages 1268-1278 | Received 01 May 1995, Published online: 17 Feb 2012

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