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Mention privacy restrictions on ZIPs in individual response files
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Coding details for each survey wave follow.
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## Privacy Restrictions
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To prevent respondents from being identifiable in the response data, responses
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with ZIP codes with populations of 100 or fewer have their location set to `NA`.
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This affects item A3 in the individual response files. (This change was
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implemented with the introduction of Wave 4. Previously, all ZIPs were
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reported.)
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Invalid ZIP codes are preserved unchanged, and these rows are reported in the
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individual response files with their invalid ZIPs.
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## Wave 1
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