Are they really too busy for survey participation? the evolution of busyness and busyness claims in flanders

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 619-632

  Vercruyssen, Anina ^a   van de Putte, Bart ^a   Stoop, Ineke A L ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doorstep reactions; Paradata; Survey participation; Time pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053193044     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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