What They See Is What We Get: Response Options for Web Surveys

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-127

  Couper, Mick P ^a,b,c   Tourangeau, Roger ^a,b,c   Conrad, Frederick G ^a,b,c   Crawford, Scott D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c WESTAT   (United States)

^d MSI Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Drop boxes; Instrument design; Radio buttons; Response order effects; Web surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442307243     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439303256555     Document Type: Article

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