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RECALL ERRORS

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Definition:
Many questions in surveys refer to happenings or conditions in the past, and there is a problem in both remembering the event and of associating it with the correct time period.

Source Publication:
Statistical Policy Working Paper 4 - Glossary of Nonsampling Error Terms: An Illustration of a Semantic Problem in Statistics, United States Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, 1978.

Hyperlink:
http://www.fcsm.gov/working-papers/sw4.html

Statistical Theme: Methodological information (metadata)

Created on Friday, July 26, 2002