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Section 4 - Additional Information for the Survey
Pages 41-42

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... Many of the suggestions come from the interviews of state DOT officials and others who are regular users of the Survey and thus keenly aware of its contents and limitations. Other suggestions derive from work on the Survey -- when the research team occasionally came across missing or obfuscated data that could potentially be remedied through an improved survey method.
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... One interviewee suggested that states could break down where they are spending their funds geographically. This type of breakdown could probably be accomplished simply by asking states how much funding they spend in rural, compared to urban, areas, perhaps with a separate category for the larger urban areas.
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