Surveying a Chicago public housing development: Methodological challenges and lessons learned

Evaluation Review

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 779-802

  Holbrook, Allyson L ^a   Farrar, Isabel C ^a   Popkin, Susan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Social desirability response bias; Survey interviewers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POVERTY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; POVERTY; PUBLIC HOUSING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 33750742267     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X06288738     Document Type: Article

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