Estimation of an indicator of the representativeness of survey response

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 201-211

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nonresponse; Quality; Representative; Response propensity; Sample survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052292972     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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