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The uncooperative interviewee

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  1. Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, USA

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The data used in this paper were made available by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. The data for the 1976American National Election Study were collected originally by the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, under a grant from the National Science Foundation. Neither the original collectors of the data nor the Consortium bears any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here.

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Sigelman, L. The uncooperative interviewee. Qual Quant 16, 345–353 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02350815

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