Designing your sample efficiently: Clustering effects in education surveys

Educational Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 109-126

  Hutchison, Dougal ^a  

^a NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design effect; Education research; Intra cluster correlation; Survey design; Youth culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249208741     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: 14695847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00131880802704806     Document Type: Article

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