Volume 51 - Article 46 | Pages 1471–1490
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during COVID-19: An examination of interviewer–respondent interactions
By Emmanuel Souza, Jethro Banda, Monica Jamali, Funny Muthema, Jacob Saikolo, Michael Chasukwa, Malebogo Tlhajoane, Boniface Dulani, Julio Romero-Prieto, Georges Reniers, Stephane Helleringer
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