Explaining income nonresponse - A case study by means of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS)

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1013-1036

  Schräpler, Jörg Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interviewer effects; Item nonresponse; Multilevel modeling; Panel analysis; Respondent behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751097992     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-005-5429-z     Document Type: Article

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