An evaluation of the weighting procedures for an online access panel survey

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-105

  Loosveldt, Geert ^a   Sonck, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Online access panel; Propensity score adjustment; Representative samples; Weighting procedures

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949103254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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