Reaching migrants in survey research: The use of the global positioning system to reduce coverage bias in china

Political Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-22

  Landry, Pierre F ^a   Shen, Mingming ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 26844499096     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpi001     Document Type: Article

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