Reliability, validity and true values in surveys

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-110

  Wikman, Anders ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Non attitudes; Re interviews validity; Reliability; Social indicator; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EID: 33745472352     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-005-5372-3     Document Type: Article

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