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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... For comparison values, they used the administrative data on the food stamp caseload, recognizing that these data are also subject to error. To account for the sampling error present in the administrative estimates, confidence intervals about the estimates were used for comparison, rather than simply the estimates themselves.
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