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Practice 6: Cooperation with Data Users
Pages 89-90

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... . Ensuring equal access requires avoiding release of standard data products to any users in advance of their being released to all users.67 In addition, agencies that prepare special tabulations of their data on request at cost should list all such tabulations on their website and make them available to other users for the cost of reproduction.68 Researchers and other users frequently request data from statistical agencies for specific purposes.
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... , but there is no substitute for testing with outside users. In developing and implementing new and nontraditional methods and data sources to produce information, statistical agencies should involve policy makers and other key data users at an early stage so that they understand an agency's criteria and decision process and have an opportunity to provide input.
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