The magnitude of discrepancies between agency and state data on volume ofstatefunded
mental health services is sample estimated for one state. Some explanations for these
discrepancies, in terms of bureaucratic problems and of agencies'efforts to circumvent the
effects of these problems on their statistics, are developed from correlations of volume
discrepancies with ancillary agency variables.
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