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(4) Experience has shown that frequently there may 

 appear to be a lack of data when actually the data 

 exist but in an obscure form or place, or else held 

 under proprietary restriction. 



(5) Data are taken primarily where there is a direct 

 economic return or a problem associated with an agency 

 mission. 



None of the problems associated with collecting management informa- 

 tion and efficiently disseminating it to serve management purposes 

 is unsolvable, but these problems set the framework within which 

 a program must operate to provide needed management information 

 to users. 



