Sampling Frame Effects on the British Crime Survey

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 253-269

  Lynn, Peter ^a  

^a Social and Comm Planning Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electoral registers; General population surveys; Postcode address file; Sampling bias; Sampling frames; Sampling variance; Survey sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002316906     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00060     Document Type: Article

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