Who needs RDD? Combining directory listings with cell phone exchanges for an alternative telephone sampling frame

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 860-872

  Guterbock, Thomas M ^a   Diop, Abdoulaye ^b   Ellis, James M ^a   Holmes, John Lee ^a   Le, Kien Trung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Cell phone samples; Coverage bias; Dual frame samples; Electronic white pages; Listed telephone samples; Random Digit Dialing; Telephone sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953228815     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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