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The analysis of tourism, and subsequent policy recommendations, are often heavily dependent upon the reliability of sample surveys. Whilst considerable attention is devoted to obtaining a reasonable sample size — so that statistically significance of sample means can be assessed — and to minimising other errors common to both complete counts and surveys1, relatively little recognition is given to the problems of sample selection and truncation bias in tourism and recreation surveys.
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Willis, K.G., Garrod, G.D. (2000). Tourism and Recreation Surveys: The Problems of Sample Selection and Truncation Bias. In: Briassoulis, H., van der Straaten, J. (eds) Tourism and the Environment. Environment & Assessment, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9584-1_9
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