Keeping track of panel members: An experimental test of a between-wave contact strategy

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 319-338

  McGonagle, Katherine A ^a   Couper, Mick P ^a   Schoeni, Robert F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition; Contact strategies; Field effort; Nonresponse; Panel study; Respondent burden; Survey methods; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959516039     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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