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First Impressions of Telephone Survey Interviewers

By: Jessica Broome  
Open Access
|Dec 2015

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Language: English
Page range: 611 - 625
Submitted on: Nov 1, 2012
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Accepted on: Mar 1, 2015
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Published on: Dec 16, 2015
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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