The impact of respondent and interviewer characteristics on the number of "no opinion" answers: A multilevel model for count data

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-45

  Pickery, Jan ^a   Loosveldt, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

"No opinion" answer; Interviewer effects; Multilevel analysis; Poisson regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032375068     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004268427793     Document Type: Article

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