An Innovative Technique for Asking Sensitive Questions: The Three-Card Method;Une technique innovante pour poser des questions sensible - La méthodes des trois cartes

BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-23

  Droitcour, Judith A ^a   Larson, Eric M ^a  

^a US General Accounting Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Research Literature; Sensitive Questions; Sensitive Topics; Social Research Methods Data Base; Sociological Abstracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973457564     PISSN: 07591063     EISSN: 20702779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/075910630207500103     Document Type: Article

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