Erratum to: Personal Landmarks as Recall Aids in Survey Interviews (Field Methods, 23, 1 (37-56), 10.1177/1525822X10384367);Personal landmarks as recall aids in survey interviews

Field Methods

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-56

  van der Vaart, Wander ^a,b   Glasner, Tina ^c  

^a University for Humanistics   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

calendar method; landmarks; recall accuracy; retrospective interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650715967     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X11406099     Document Type: Erratum

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