A multilevel multinomial analysis of interviewer effects on various components of unit nonresponse

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 427-437

  Pickery, Jan ^a   Loosveldt, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0036416964     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020905911108     Document Type: Article

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