Using paradata to predict best times of contact, conditioning on household and interviewer influences

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1029-1049

  Durrant, Gabriele B ^a   D'Arrigo, Julia ^a   Steele, Fiona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interviewer call record data; Multilevel discrete time event history models; Paradata; Responsive survey design

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053560665     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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