Patterns of consent: Evidence from a general household survey

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

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 701-722

  Jenkins, Stephen P ^a,c   Cappellari, Lorenzo ^a,b   Lynn, Peter ^a   Jäckle, Annette ^a   Sala, Emanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consent bias; Data linkage; Household surveys; Incidental truncation; Informed consent; Multivariate probit; National insurance number; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748805199     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00417.x     Document Type: Review

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