The pot calling the kettle black? A comparison of measures of current tobacco use

Applied Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 431-448

  Tennekoon, Vidhura ^a   Rosenman, Robert ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biochemical assessments; measurement error; misclassification; smoking prevalence; social desirability

Indexed keywords

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84914683036     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.972546     Document Type: Article

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