Response rates and data quality in web and mail surveys administered to Phd holders

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 208-220

  Barrios, Maite ^a   Villarroya, Anna ^a   Borrego, Ángel ^a   Ollé, Candela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

data quality; mail survey; response rate; web survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955129760     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439310368031     Document Type: Article

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