Extended Field Efforts to Reduce the Risk of Non-response Bias: Have the Effects Changed over Time? Can Weighting Achieve the Same Effects?

BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-25

  Hall, Julia ^a   Brown, Victoria ^a   Nicolaas, Gerry ^a   Lynn, Peter ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enquetes; Interviewers; Intervieweurs; Non contact; Non reponse; Non response; Refus; Refusal; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873814347     PISSN: 07591063     EISSN: 20702779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0759106312465545     Document Type: Review

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