Nonresponse bias and business turnover rates: The case of the characteristics of business owners survey

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 231-241

  Holmes, Thomas J ^a   Schmitz, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Business discontinuance; Business survival; Nonignorable nonresponse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030525492     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1996.10524650     Document Type: Article

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