Unit non-response due to refusal

Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 121-147

  Stoop, Ineke ^a  

^a The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3876-2_9     Document Type: Chapter

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