A systematic literature review on response rates across racial and ethnic populations

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-219

  Sykes, Lindsay L ^a   Walker, Robin L ^a,b   Ngwakongnwi, Emmanuel ^a   Quan, Hude ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethnic minority; Face to face survey; Mail survey; Response rates; Survey; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 77957259678     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404376     Document Type: Review

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