Coding Verbal Behaviors to Measure Data Quality in Interviews Collected with Conventional

Coding Verbal Behaviors to Measure Data Quality in Interviews Collected with Conventional Questionnaires and Event History Calendar

Mario Callegaro

Program in Survey Research and Methodology (SRAM)

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Workshop on Behavioural Coding, 16 February 2007

Wivenhoe House, University of Essex

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