Tone of postcards in increasing survey response rates

Psychological Reports

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 444-448

  Price, James H ^a   Yingling, Faith ^a   Walsh, Eileen ^a   Murnan, Judy ^a   Dake, Joseph A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; POSTAL MAIL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; POSTAL SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 2942672903     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.94.2.444-448     Document Type: Article

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