Reporting on first sexual experience: The importance of interviewer-respondent interaction

Demographic Research

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 237-288

  Poulin, Michelle ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.11     Document Type: Article

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