Response strategy, recall frame and digit preference in self-reports of angling participation

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 54-68

  Vaske, Jerry J ^a   Beaman, Jay ^a   Manfredo, Michael J ^a   Covey, Douglas D ^a   Knox, Robin ^b  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b Wildlife Health Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Digit preference; Heaping; Recall frame; Response strategy; Rounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346121210     PISSN: 10871209     EISSN: 1533158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10871209609359078     Document Type: Article

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