"Don't Know" Responses in Surveys: Is What I Know What You Want to Know and Do I Want You to Know It?

Memory

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 407-426

  Beatty, Paul ^a   Herrmann, Douglas ^b   Puskar, Cathy ^c   Kerwin, Jeffrey ^d  

^a National Center for Health Statistic   (United States)

^b INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 0032129031     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/741942605     Document Type: Article

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