The components of landline telephone survey coverage bias. The relative importance of no-phone and mobile-only populations

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1209-1225

  Busse, Britta ^a   Fuchs, Marek ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coverage bias; Mobile only; No phone; Telephone survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859428681     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-011-9431-3     Document Type: Article

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