Study of return rate and return time of undeliverable postal letters

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 467-470

  Schmidt Pokrzywniak, Andrea ^a   Stang, Andreas ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiological studies; Response; Undeliverable letters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; GERMANY; LETTER; NAMED GROUPS OF PERSONS; POSTAL MAIL; TIME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; POSTAL SERVICE;

EID: 77955533453     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-010-9463-3     Document Type: Article

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