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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

As economists who’ve been using lots of government data for a long time, we’ve always been delighted that the federal government had systematic, professionally managed programs for collecting data and publishing important information. What, then, is the $88 million reported as online sales of general merchandise stores in 2013?