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you brought them in?

Clark:

Yes, they were trained and monitored.

Q:

Was there enough demographic data, socio-economic background data and so forth available in the inner cities, in Harlem, and elsewhere so that you felt you could set up reliable samples?

Clark:

We had to, surely.

Q:

It had been done or did you have to dig up the whole raw data yourself?

Clark:

We had to do with the raw data and have our sample be representive. This had to be established.

Q:

Now, you said they did this interviewing by phone?

Clark:

By phone.

Q:

Does this put a bias skew in to your sample? Are there that many phones--is there enough lack of telephones in Harlem, for example, to make it difficult to get a representative sample?

Clark:

We didn't think so, and we had to have a technical--what is the word? For example, in rural areas where may have been fewer phones--and by the way, there are more phones than people think in





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