Introduction: New Challenges to Social Measurement

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 645, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 6-22

  Massey, Douglas S ^a   Tourangeau, Roger ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

bias; estimation; item nonresponse; nonresponse; response rate; survey nonresponse; surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870177825     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716212463314     Document Type: Article

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