Improving Survey Response: Lessons Learned from the European Social Survey

Improving Survey Response: Lessons Learned from the European Social Survey

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-328

  Stoop, Ineke ^a   Billiet, Jaak ^b   Koch, Achim ^c   Fitzgerald, Rory ^d  

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

^b Centre for Sociological Research   (Belgium)

^c GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d Centre for Comparative Social Surveys   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84947346234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470688335     Document Type: Book

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