Field Lessons From the Delivery of Questionnaires to Young Adults Using Mobile Phones

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-112

  van Heerden, A C ^a   Norris, S A ^a   Tollman, S M ^a   Stein, A D ^b   Richter, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth to Twenty; mobile phone; mobile phone assisted self interviewing; survey methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898684606     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439313504537     Document Type: Article

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