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Hi,

I'm working with data for NAICS codes 532284 - Recreational Goods Rental, 712120 - Historical Sites, 712130 - Zoos and Botanical Gardens, 712190 - Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions, and 713990 - All Other Amusement and Recreation Industries for the following CBSAs:

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

One thing I've been noticing is that raw visits to places that would see thousands of daily visits absolutely craters in the first half of 2023. These places are not national parks, as I've already filtered them out.

Some examples:

• Placekey: zzw-222@63r-6ct-3nq - Constitution Gardens in Washington, DC goes from 5352 visits on 30 April 2023 to 21 visits on 1 May and stays at this much lower level for the rest of my panel.
• Placekey: zzy-222@628-pgc-kxq - Smith Memorial Arch in Philadelphia goes from around 10000 visits in 2022 to around 15 visits starting on 1 April.
• Placekey: zzy-222@8gf-drv-vzz - Charlotte Speedway Historical Marker in Charlotte, NC goes from around 15000 visits in 2022 to around 15 visits starting on 1 March.

I'm wondering if there is some sort of methodological change that happened around this time, either with sampling, or how things are scaled, that can account for this considerable decline that I'm observing fairly systematically in my sample.