Representativeness in Online Surveys through Stratified Samples

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-21

  Blasius, Jörg ^a   Brandt, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Environ Economic Acco Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echantillons stratifi s; Enqu ts en ligne; Online Panels; Online Surveys; Panels en ligne; Representativeness; Repr sentativit ; Stratified Samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864614213     PISSN: 07591063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0759106310369964     Document Type: Article

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