Using housing items to indicate socioeconomic status: Latin America

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-80

  Arias, Elizabeth ^a   De Vos, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGION; HOUSING QUALITY; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; SOCIAL INDICATORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STATUS INDICATOR;

LATIN AMERICA;

EID: 0030424569     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00293786     Document Type: Article

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