Indicators for monitoring and improving representativeness of response

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-253

  Schouten, Barry ^a   Shlomo, Natalie ^b   Skinner, Chris ^b  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variable; Business survey; Nonresponse; Response propensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959510796     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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