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Title Methods can matter: Where Web surveys produce different results than phone interviews
Author Keeter, S.
Source Pew Research Center: Fact Tank
Year 2016
Access date 28.02.2016
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Abstract "Over the past year, Pew Research Center conducted an experiment to see if the mode by which someone was surveyed – in this case, a telephone survey with an interviewer versus a self-administered survey on the Web – would have any effect on the answers people gave. We used two randomly selected groups from our American Trends Panel to do this, asking both groups the same set of 60 questions..."
Year of publication2015
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