Paradata for Nonresponse Error Investigation

Improving Surveys with Paradata: Analytic Uses of Process Information

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 13-42

  Kreuter, Frauke ^a,b,c   Olson, Kristen ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1002/9781118596869.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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