Minimizing survey refusal and noncontact rates: Do our efforts pay off?

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-10

  Heerwegh, Dirk ^a   Abts, Koen ^a   Loosveldt, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Data quality; Nonresponse error; Nonresponse rate; Survey research

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249139263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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