Sampling international migrants with origin-based snowballing method: New evidence on biases and limitations

Demographic Research

Volumn 25, Issue , 2011, Pages 103-134

  Beauchemin, Cris ^a   González Ferrer, Amparo ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

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EID: 80054081217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.3     Document Type: Article

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