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Test: Margin of error is too large

Open newsroomdev opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

Please read how to create a new test if you're interested in writing this test.

Given a user-designated margin of error column and the column it's describing, if the error is larger than 10% of the total amount flag that cell.

For example, according to the 2014 5-year ACS estimates, the number of Asians living in New York is 1,106,989 +/- 3,526 (0.3%). The number of Filipinos is 71,969 +/- 3,088 (4.3%). The number of Samoans is 203 +/- 144. (71%)

The first two numbers are safe to report. The third number should never be used in published reporting.

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newsroomdev avatar Jan 13 '16 18:01 newsroomdev