Interviewer speech and the success of survey invitations

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 191-210

  Conrad, Frederick G ^a,b   Broome, Jessica S ^a   Benkí, José R ^a   Kreuter, Frauke ^b   Groves, Robert M ^c   Vannette, David ^a   Mcclain, Colleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

Interaction between interviewers and household members; Interviewer success; Interviewers; Survey recruitment; Telephone interviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871660034     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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