National health surveys by mail or home interview: effects on response
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National health surveys by mail or home interview: effects on response.
STUDY OBJECTIVE To study the effect of using a mail questionnaire or home interviews on the size and the selectivity of response to national health surveys. DESIGN The interview survey and the mail survey were both carried out in the same country (the Netherlands) using the same sample frame, the same study period (1998) and collected partly the same data on demographic, socioeconomic and hea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.6.408