From design to practice: How can large-scale household surveys better represent the complexities of the social units under investigation?

Etude de la Population Africaine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1309-1323

  Kriel, Antoinette ^a   Randall, Sara ^b   Coast, Ernestina ^c   de Clercq, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organisational and structural complexity; Quantitative household survey concepts; Representativeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911870046     PISSN: 08505780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11564/0-0-618     Document Type: Article

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