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Adaptive Intervention Methodology for Reduction of Respondent Contact Burden in the American Community Survey

Journal of Official Statistics
Volume 33 (2017): Issue 4 (December 2017)
By: Robert Ashmead,  Eric Slud and  Todd Hughes  
Open Access
|Nov 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jos-2017-0043 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
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Language: English
Page range: 901 - 919
Submitted on: Jul 1, 2016
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Accepted on: Sep 1, 2017
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Published on: Nov 18, 2017
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Contact History Instrument,
nonresponse follow-up,
respondent burden,
paradata
Related subjects:
Mathematics,
Probability and statistics

© 2017 Robert Ashmead, Eric Slud, Todd Hughes, published by Sciendo
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