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Comparing Survey and Sampling Methods for Reaching Sexual Minority Individuals in Flanders

Journal of Official Statistics
Volume 30 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)
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|May 2014
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0016 | Journal eISSN: 2001-7367
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Language: English
Page range: 251 - 1
Submitted on: Feb 1, 2013
Accepted on: Mar 1, 2014
Published online: May 8, 2014
Published in print: Jun 1, 2014
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
Hard-to-reach populations,
self-selection bias,
nonrandom samples
Related subjects:
Mathematics,
Probability and statistics

© 2014 Alexis Dewaele, Maya Caen, Ann Buysse, published by Sciendo
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