Children as Respondents in Survey Research: Cognitive Development and Response Quality 1;Les enfants comme répondants dans les enquêtes - Développement cognitif et qualité des réponses

BMS Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/ Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 60-75

  Borgers, Natacha ^a   de Leeuw, Edith ^b   Hox, Joop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MethodikA   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

D veloppement cognitif; Enfants; Entretiens; Qualit des donn es; Questionnaires

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973470086     PISSN: 07591063     EISSN: 20702779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/075910630006600106     Document Type: Article

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