When surveys lie and people tell the truth: how surveys oversample church attenders.
Part of a special section on church attendance in the U.S. A commentary on Hadaway et al.'s “What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at Church Attendance,” which appeared in American Sociological Review, vol. 58, 1993, pp. 741-752. Telephone polls seriously oversample church attenders and, hence...
| Publicado en: | American Sociological Review Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 119 - 123 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
February 1998
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