Are we measuring what we want to measure? Individual consistency in survey response in rural Malawi

Demographic Research

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 77-108

  Assche, Simona Bignami Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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