Asking sensitive questions: The impact of data collection mode, question format, and question context

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 275-304

  Tourangeau, Roger ^a   Smith, Tom W ^a  

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EID: 0030524123     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/297751     Document Type: Article

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