Assessing the representativeness of the 1992 British crime survey: The impact of sampling error and response biases

Sociological Research Online

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages

  Elliott, C ^a   Ellingworth, D ^a  

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Author keywords

Bias; British Crime Survey; Census; Deciles; Regression Modelling; Representativeness; Response Rates; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244459198     PISSN: 13607804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5153/sro.122     Document Type: Article

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