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missing data  

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  • Missing data problems arise frequently in social science applications. Household survey respondents may fail to provide responses to questions for reasons of refusal, fatigue, enumerator error or perhaps a split sample design is used, in which case the missingness is an intentional strategy to conserve resources. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Data, Missing]

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