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Gary: I think this language is awkward, but I am unclear as to how it should be updated.

If data cannot be collected using fields in this guide, then a custom collection field may be used. Guidance for field creation in this section supports data collection irrespective of its inclusion in subsequent tabulation datasets. When considering a new data collection field, determine whether the data will be used for an operational use case, such as data cleaning, or are actual data that could be represented in a tabulation dataset. In general, a new field for a CRF will fall into one of the following categories:

• A field used for operational, Data Cleaning purposes only.
• A field that has a used to collect data that have Direct Mapping to a target variable in the tabulation dataset variable.
• A field with used to collect data that has No Direct Mapping to a tabulation dataset variable.

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