Collecting Data among Ethnic Minorities in an International Perspective

Field Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 284-304

  Feskens, Remco ^a   Hox, Joop ^a   Lensvelt Mulders, Gerty ^a   Schmeets, Hans ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ethnic minoritie; nonresponse reductio; tailored strategie

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249154106     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X06288756     Document Type: Article

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