Identity Importance and the Overreporting of Religious Service Attendance: Multiple Imputation of Religious Attendance Using the American Time Use Study and the General Social Survey

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-115

  Brenner, Philip S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity importance; Multiple imputation; Religious attendance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952224166     PISSN: 00218294     EISSN: 14685906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5906.2010.01554.x     Document Type: Article

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