Attrition in Consumer Panels

Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 235-249

  Tortora, Robert D ^a  

^a Gallup Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Attrition on gallup poll panel; Gallup poll panel; Gallup Poll Panel (GPP); Random Digit Dial (RDD) surveys; Replacement for an apparently failing data collection method (RDD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948750368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743874.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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