Surveying migrant households: A comparison of census-based, snowball and intercept point surveys

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 339-360

  McKenzie, David J ^a   Mistiaen, Johan ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Intercept point; Migration; Snowball survey; Surveying rare elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 62249126524     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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