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An examination of the quality and utility of interviewer observations in the National Survey of Family Growth
dc.contributor.authorWest, Brady T.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-03T19:36:01Z
dc.date.available2014-03-03T15:09:24Zen_US
dc.date.issued2013-01en_US
dc.identifier.citationWest, Brady T. (2013). "An examination of the quality and utility of interviewer observations in the National Survey of Family Growth." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 176(1). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94706>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0964-1998en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-985Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/94706
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.subject.otherNon‐Response Adjustmenten_US
dc.subject.otherParadataen_US
dc.subject.otherSurvey Non‐Responseen_US
dc.subject.otherInterviewer Observationsen_US
dc.subject.otherError in Auxiliary Variablesen_US
dc.titleAn examination of the quality and utility of interviewer observations in the National Survey of Family Growthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelStatistics and Numeric Dataen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USAen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/94706/1/rssa1038.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01038.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)en_US
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