Health status and disability comparisons between CATI calendar and conventional questionnaire instruments

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 813-828

  Belli, Robert F ^a   Agrawal, Sangeeta ^b   Bilgen, Ipek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Gallup Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Health reports; Interviewing methods; Questionnaire design; Retrospective reports; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858442716     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-010-9415-8     Document Type: Article

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