Determinants of the starting rate and the completion rate in online panel studies1

Online Panel Research: A Data Quality Perspective

Volumn 9781119941774, Issue , 2014, Pages 154-170

  Göritz, Anja S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Completion rate; Starting rate; Study characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899448640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118763520.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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