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Weighting Adjustments Because of Unit Non-response

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Laaksonen, S. (2018). Weighting Adjustments Because of Unit Non-response. In: Survey Methodology and Missing Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79011-4_8

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