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Describe French translation fix
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docs/symptom-survey/coding.md

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* Item H1 asks respondents when they were in public in the past 7 days, how many
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people maintained at least 6 feet from others.
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people maintained at least 6 feet from others. *Note:* The French translation
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of this item was initially incorrect. See the [error log](problems.md#mistranslation-of-distances-may-2021)
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for details on the fix.
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* Item H2 asks respondents when they were in public in the past 7 days, how many
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people wore face masks.
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* Item H3 asks respondents thinking about their friends and family, how many

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## Mistranslation of Distances (May 2021)
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In Wave 11, all items were re-translated to ensure consistency of the
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translations. The new item H1, on social distancing, is:
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> When out in public in the past 7 days, how many people maintained a distance
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> of at least 6 feet from others?
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In French, it was translated to read as follows:
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> Lorsque vous êtes sorti(e) au cours des 7 derniers jours, combien de personnes
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> ont maintenu une distance d’au moins 6 mètres entre elles ?
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This incorrectly translated 6 feet to 6 meters. On June 7, 2021 at 9:50am
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Pacific time, we corrected the text to read:
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> Lorsque vous êtes sorti(e) au cours des 7 derniers jours, combien de personnes
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> ont maintenu une distance d’au moins 2 mètres entre elles ?
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This problem only affected the French translation. The `UserLanguage` column in
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the survey data files indicates the translation used by each respondent to
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complete the survey.
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## Election-Related Sample Size Decreases (Nov 2020)
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Sample sizes decreased in the days following the 2020 US presidential election.

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