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Survey researchers in the past have tended to look upon personal interviews, telephone interviews, and mail questionnaires as alternative methods. Reported here is a home-use product test which utilizes all three methods in combination, each obtaining appropriate information from the same households.
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Stanley L. Payne (1964) studied this question.
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