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Principle 3: Trust among Data Providers
Pages 47-50

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From page 47...
... Even when response is mandatory, as in the case of such essential statistical programs as the population and economic censuses, the willing cooperation of respondents reduces costs and likely promotes accuracy (see National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2016; National Research Council, 1995, 2004, 2013b)
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From page 48...
... The added protection from this advanced technology is a benefit to statistical agencies.30 To engender trust, a statistical agency should also respect the privacy of data providers in other ways and ensure that individuals' decisions to respond to a survey are made with full information (i.e., are autonomous) .31 Such respect requires an agency to minimize the intrusiveness of questions and the time and effort to respond to them to the maximum extent possible that is consistent with the agency's requirements for information.
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From page 49...
... Office of Management and Budget (2014a) asserts the legitimacy and benefits of use of administrative data from other federal agencies for statistical agency purposes.
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