On the contrary, we can in fact succeed. The national household survey will produce data that will meet many users' needs. On the effect of the declining response rate, there are really two aspects to what you need to take into consideration. One is that if there were no compensating change in the size of the sample, the sampling error would increase, and that would degrade the quality of the data, strictly from an accuracy point of view.
The sample size has actually been increased to compensate for that, so--