Estimating the socioeconomic characteristics of school populations with the aid of pupil postcodes and small-area census data: An appraisal

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1267-1285

  Gibson, Alex ^a   Asthana, Sheena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033929735     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3276     Document Type: Article

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