Responsive design for household surveys: Tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 439-457

  Groves, Robert M ^a   Heeringa, Steven G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Multiphase sampling; Paradata; Propensity models; Responsive design; Survey non response

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745049458     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00423.x     Document Type: Review

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