How you ask counts: A test of Internet-related components of response rates to a web-based survey

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 385-392

  Trouteaud, Alex R ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Response rate; Web based survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242661157     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439304265650     Document Type: Review

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