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... Even though it represents a larger proportion of the user community than the actual number of respondents shown in column 1, it contains a degree of subjectivity, in that the individual responding for an organization may not accurately represent the views of all individuals in that organization. Use of percentages in the last column instead of those in column 1 would have the greatest effect on comparisons with the private industry and consulting groups.
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... The usage of geoscience maps reported by the government group is rather consistent for all categories, with a slight emphasis on scientific research and less emphasis on hazard mitigation. The industry group reported a marked emphasis upon resource activities (76 percent)
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... In terms of work activity, Figure 3 indicates exploration to be most important regardless of resource type. The distribution of activities in groundwater resource work appears to differ slightly from that in the other categories, having a greater proportion of respondents engaged in regulatory and engineering activities.
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... Since only about 10 percent of the geologists in the United States who produce geologic maps are employed by federal agencies and 4 percent by state agencies, there is a
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... disproportionate dependence by industry on these agencies. Clearly, federal and state agencies are by far the major sources of geoscience maps that actually reach the user community as a whole, with federal sources relied upon one-half again as much as the combined states' output.
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