Survey Interviews and New Communication Technologies

Envisioning the Survey Interview of the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-30

  Schober, Michael F ^a   Conrad, Frederick G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio Computer Assisted Self Interviewing (A CASI); Large scale academic surveys; Real world and laboratory created tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955108780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470183373.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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