Context effects in national health surveys effects of preceding questions on reporting serious difficulty seeing and legal blindness

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-76

  Todorov, Alexander ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034335481     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316760     Document Type: Article

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