Are "Webographic" or attitudinal questions useful for adjusting estimates from Web surveys using propensity scoring?

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 155-163

  Schonlau, Matthias ^a   van Soest, Arthur ^b   Kapteyn, Arie ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lifestyle variables; Propensity scoring; Selection bias; Simpson s paradox; Web survey; Webographic variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 59949092019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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