Experiments with methods to reduce attrition in longitudinal surveys

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

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 499-519

  Fumagalli, Laura ^a   Laurie, Heather ^a   Lynn, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attrition; Co operation; Experiments; Longitudinal surveys; Non response; Respondent incentives; Tailoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872655711     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01051.x     Document Type: Article

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