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Vesa Kuusela and Matti Simpanen
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Vesa Kuusela: Development Social Survey Unit, Statistics
Matti Simpanen: CATI Centre of the Social Survey Unit at Satistics

Chapter 4 in Telephone Surveys in Europe, 2011, pp 37-45 from Springer

Abstract: Introduction Knowing the telephone coverage is nowadays more difficult than it used to be. Up to mid 1990s, it was sufficient to know how many households own a landline telephone but the increasing proportion of mobile phones has changed the situation radically. Solving the methodological problems is not straightforward because of the different nature of mobile and landline telephones, and because many households use both types of telephones concurrently. In Finland, as compared to many other countries, the popularity of mobile telephones started to soar relatively early (Kuusela et al. 2007). In the beginning of this trend, there was some concern that interviewing on mobile telephones would influence the survey results. Therefore, Statistics Finland conducted several surveys in the 1990s to monitor the changes in telephone coverage and to assess potential influences of mobile telephones on survey quality.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25411-6_4

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