The stratifying force of family size, urbanization and parental education in socialist-era Poland

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 525-536

  Bielicki, Tadeusz ^a   Szklarska, Alicja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FAMILY SIZE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EASTERN EUROPE; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPE; FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS; FAMILY SIZE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; LIVING ARRANGEMENTS; PARENTS; POLAND; POPULATION; RESEARCH REPORT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD OF LIVING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY HEIGHT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; POLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0032830089     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932099005258     Document Type: Article

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