Ethnic Identity, Questionnaire Content, and the Dilemma of Race Matching in Surveys of African Americans by African American Interviewers

Field Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 142-161

  Davis, Rachel E ^a   Caldwell, Cleopatra H ^b   Couper, Mick P ^c   Janz, Nancy K ^b   Alexander, Gwen L ^d   Greene, Sarah M ^e   Zhang, Nanhua ^f   Resnicow, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; health; interviewers; racial attitudes; survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876550170     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X12449709     Document Type: Article

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