Accuracy of standard measures of family planning service quality: findings from the simulated client method.

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Published in Stud Fam Plann on December 01, 2014

Authors

Katherine Tumlinson1, Ilene S Speizer, Siân L Curtis, Brian W Pence

Author Affiliations

1: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544.. kt10@princeton.edu.

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