Volume 51 - Article 37 | Pages 1167–1182  

Sample selection bias in adult mortality estimates from mobile phone surveys: Evidence from 25 low- and middle-income countries

By Sahar Ahmed, Julio Romero-Prieto, David A. Sánchez-Páez, Bruno Masquelier, Tom Pullum, Georges Reniers

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