Sampling and coverage issues of telephone surveys used for collecting health information in Australia: Results from a face-to-face survey from 1999 to 2008

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Grande, Eleonora Dal ^a   Taylor, Anne W ^a,b  

^a Population Research and Outcome Studies   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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EID: 77956921246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-77     Document Type: Article

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