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When employing the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in engineering surveying, the high-precision real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning method must be used to achieve such positioning accuracy. Currently, precise point positioning (PPP) cannot reliably achieve the positioning accuracy needed for engineering surveying in real time. The high-precision RTK positioning method needs carrier-phase measurements and a reference station\/network. Surveyors may not need a GNSS receiver in their organizations\/companies to act as the reference station. Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS), run by international\/national organizations\/agencies or private companies such as GNSS receiver manufacturers, let users freely access the raw GNSS measurements or corrections for real-time and post-processing applications. The positioning accuracy of the GNSS rover is affected by the data quality of the reference stations, including virtual reference stations (VRS). The International GNSS Service (IGS) currently provides the number of cycle slips and the L1 and L2 average pseudorange multipath errors per station daily. The US National Geodetic Survey (NGS) provides daily station coordinate residuals. Carrier-phase data quality of the CORS stations is not provided by their organizations\/agencies. Nowadays, many CORS stations track multi-GNSS satellites. This paper proposes a multi-GNSS and multi-frequency data quality assessment approach for CORS stations with a focus on carrier-phase data quality. The proposed approach is demonstrated with case studies on IGS\/CORS networks in Hong Kong and Canada\/USA. In other words, a strategy to obtain non-linear combined carrier-phase multipath errors and noise is proposed in this work. The data quality of a CORS station depends on the site environment, monument type and height, and GNSS receiver\/antenna. 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