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This report is a collection of occasional papers on technical issues in the design, implementation, and operation of the 2002 round of the NSAF. It is a companion report to the 1999 methodology series Report No. 7 NSAF Collection of Papers and the 1997 methodology series Report No. 16 NSAF Technical Papers. All the papers in this collection were presented at either the annual May American Association for Public Opinion Research conference or the annual August Joint Statistical Meetings.

Methodology Report No. 10 focuses on data editing techniques, including data processing, coding guidelines, how data errors were dealt with, and how edits were made including the editing that was done to protect respondent confidentiality. In addition, this report discusses the imputation procedures that were often used when values were missing and explains the impact these imputations will likely have on the estimation of variance.

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