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HAL Id: hal-00745617 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00745617 Submitted on 26 Oct 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Eliciting personal network data in web surveys through participant-generated sociograms Paola Tubaro, Antonio Casilli, Lise Mounier To cite this version: Paola Tubaro, Antonio Casilli, Lise Mounier. Eliciting personal network data in web surveys through participant-generated sociograms. Préprint de l’article accepté pour publication dans Field Methods, vol. 26, n. 2, 2014. 2012. <hal-00745617>

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Eliciting personal network data in web surveys throughparticipant-generated sociogramsPaola Tubaro, Antonio Casilli, Lise Mounier

To cite this version:Paola Tubaro, Antonio Casilli, Lise Mounier. Eliciting personal network data in web surveys throughparticipant-generated sociograms. Préprint de l’article accepté pour publication dans Field Methods,vol. 26, n. 2, 2014. 2012. <hal-00745617>

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