How do successful and less successful interviewers differ in tactics for combating survey nonresponse?

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-42

  de Leeuw, Edith D ^a  

^a NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doorstep Interaction; Interviewer Strategies; Persuasion Survey Participation; Response Rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937185274     PISSN: 07591063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/075910639906200104     Document Type: Article

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