Reliability of Position Generator Measures across Different Occupational Lists: A Parallel Test Experiment

Field Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 238-261

  Verhaeghe, Pieter Paul ^a   van de Putte, Bart ^a   Roose, Henk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

parallel test experiment; position generator; reliability; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880437296     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X12453227     Document Type: Article

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