Problems Relating to Declining Response Rates to Social Survey Research in Japan: Trends After 2000

International Journal of Japanese Sociology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-22

  Inaba, Akihide ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Response rate; Social survey; The Act on the Protection of Personal Information

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249141158     PISSN: 09187545     EISSN: 14756781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6781.2007.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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