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    "Five-character ZIP keys are unique; no joins on names or implicit ZIP=ZCTA.",
    "ACS local metrics require an eligible DIRECT_MATCH in the governed bridge.",
    "ZIP postal localities and source counties are lookup labels, not Census municipal boundaries.",
    "ACS estimates describe ZCTAs during 2020–2024, not postal delivery territories or current counts.",
    "Negative Census markers and nonnumeric annotations remain unavailable; never imputed to zero.",
    "Identical source duplicates are removed after equality checks; conflicting duplicates fail.",
    "Population and income use the governed bridge cached ACS fields; their MOEs were not supplied.",
    "Other local metrics retain published 90% margins of error. Rate MOEs are percentage points.",
    "Texas/U.S. AI rates are separate regional context, never ZIP estimates or AWORD scores.",
    "No ZIP-to-CBSA assignment is made. No ACS counts are summed into regional totals.",
    "This static website snapshot does not replace the governed NDS ACS core or master-clean serving layer."
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}
