Sensitive topics and reluctant respondents: Demonstrating a link between nonresponse bias and measurement error

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-432

  Tourangeau, Roger ^a,b   Groves, Robert M ^c   Redline, Cleo D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

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EID: 77956279241     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: 15375331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfq004     Document Type: Article

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