Measuring Self-Reported Discrimination: Trends in Question Wording Used in Publicly Accessible Datasets

Social Currents

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 287-305

  Grollman, Eric Anthony ^a   Hagiwara, Nao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; measurement; question wording; surveys; unfair treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85022043285     PISSN: 23294965     EISSN: 23294973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2329496517704875     Document Type: Article

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