Can Surveys Measure Alcohol Consumption? Advances in Survey Methodology in the KALK Project.

ABSTRACT This articles explores the merits and problems of survey research in analysing national alcohol consumption. Whereas sales and taxation records usually provide the macro-level data for estimating alcohol consumption in a country as a whole, this data say very little about both the distribut...

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Publicado en:Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 647 - 664
Autores principales: Kuhlhorn, Eckart, Hibell, Bjorn
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec99
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