Keeping in Contact with Mobile Sample Members

Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 183-203

  Couper, Mick P ^a   Ofstedal, Mary Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study 1 panel study of income dynamics; Case study 2 health and retirement study; Health and Retirement Study (HRS); Location problem in panel surveys; Study of Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948752099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470743874.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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