A multilevel exploration of the role of interviewers in survey non-response

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

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 437-446

  O'Muircheartaigh, Colm ^a   Campanelli, Pamela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Interviewer effects; Interviewer variance; Multilevel models; Multinomial regression; Survey non response

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473738     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00147     Document Type: Article

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