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Appendix E: Special Case: Estimates for Puerto Rico
Pages 244-245

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... In addition, the specific model-based estimation procedures developed by the Census Bureau for U.S. states and counties cannot be applied to Puerto Rico since they are based on tax return and food stamp participation data for which there are no precise equivalents for Puerto Rico.
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... However, only limited information was available about other key aspects of data quality, including response rates for households to the income questions and the editing or imputation procedures used. The Census Bureau computed 1995 estimates for Puerto Rico from data collected in the 1996 Puerto Rican Family Income Survey that was conducted in the commonwealth in February-March 1997.
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