Volume 38 - Article 55 | Pages 1663–1698  

Measuring fertility through mobile‒phone based household surveys: Methods, data quality, and lessons learned from PMA2020 surveys

By Yoonjoung Choi, Qingfeng Li, Blake Zachary

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